690 So. 2d 521 - Minnis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2012
13 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 United States v. Bagley · Rideout v. United States · Commissioner v. Engle · Milton v. Wainwright · Figueroa v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`It is only the most compelling prejudice, against which the trial court will not be able to afford protection, that will be sufficient to show the court abused its discretion in not granting a severance. Moreover, a defendant seeking to overturn a denial of severance must demonstrate specific prejudice which resulted from the denial. A mere showing of some prejudice is insufficient.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) A person commits the crime of arson in the first degree if he intentionally damages a building by starting or maintaining a fire or causing an explosion, and when: "(1) Another person is present in such building at the time, and "(2) The actor knows that fact, or the circumstances are such as to render the presence of a person therein a reasonable possibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“our obligation is to determine if there exists any reasonable theory from which the jury could have concluded that the defendant was guilty of the crime charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dill v. State · Ballenger v. State
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.