State v. Spaziano’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Jones v. State (1998), Sims v. State (2000)
34 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 Spaziano v. Florida · 116 S. Ct. 712 - Neben & Starrett, Inc. v. Chartwell Financial Corp. · Jones v. State · Berry v. State · 408 So. 2d 1024 - Jent 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound judicial discretion of the trial court, and the presumption is that [it] exercised that discretion properly. And the general rule is that unless it clearly appears that the trial court abused its discretion, the action of the trial court will not be disturbed by the appellate court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“exceedingly unreliable, and it is the duty of the court to deny a new trial where it is not satisfied that such testimony is true.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n assessing recanted testimony, we have stressed caution, noting that it may be unreliable and trial judges must `examine all of the circumstances in the case.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.