679 So. 2d 977 - State v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2018
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 523 So. 2d 1305 - State v. Mussall · Liegl v. Webb · State v. Jacobs · 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statement made by a declarant [unavailable as a witness] while believing that his death was imminent, concerning the cause or circumstances of what be believed to be his impending death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The more serious the injury and the greater the impairment, the more probable is his belief that the end is near: [N]o absolute rule can be laid down by which to decide with certainty whether the declarant, at the time of making his statement, really expected to die, yet when the wound is from its nature mortal, and when as a matter of fact, the deceased shortly after making his statement died, the courts have uniformly held that the declarant really believed that death was impending, and his statement has been admitted as a dying declaration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I think it would be smart for him to stop it. If something happens to him [the witness], he'll be back in court I presume.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewis
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.