681 So. 2d 514 - Tran v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 835 So. 2d 14 - Hawthorne v. State (2003), 718 So. 2d 1107 - Wall v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · 308 So. 2d 71 - Newell v. State · 468 So. 2d 45 - Fuselier v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deliberate design means intent to kill, without authority of law and not being legally justifiable, legally excusable or under circumstances that would reduce the act to a lesser crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State · Jones v. State“[i]t has long been the case law of this state that malice aforethought, premeditated design, and deliberate design all mean the same thing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State · Taylor v. State“[t]here is no flaw in the instruction given as it does not state that deliberate design can be formed at the very moment of the fatal act, ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.