685 So. 2d 1234 - Curtis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2015
18 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 Melbourne v. State · 654 So. 2d 552 - State v. Gray · 316 So. 2d 539 - Slater v. State · 565 So. 2d 1288 - Livingston v. State · 526 So. 2d 903 - Brown 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The granting or denying of a continuance is within the sound discretion of the trial court and this Court will not set aside such a ruling absent an abuse of discretion, even in a capital case ... In the present case, the trial court discussed the matter extensively with Curtis on numerous occasions and disclosed in detail the consequences of a prompt trial. Curtis was adamant. Curtis’s decision was informed and knowing and was properly within his purview ... We find no error.”
1 later decision 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.