692 So. 2d 755 - Lester v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

cited by 92 later decisions

states following

January 2019

most recently cited

85 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Gray v. State (1998), 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State (2003)

85 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Furman v. Georgia · Stirone v. United States · Huddleston 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[O]bjection on one ground at trial waives all other grounds for objection on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Mitchell v. State · 829 So. 2d 29 - Kolberg v. State
“[A] change in an indictment is permissible if it does not materially alter facts which are the essence of the offense ... as it originally stood or materially alter a defense to the indictment as it originally stood so as to prejudice the defendant's case. The test ... is whether the defense as it originally stood would be equally available after the amendment is made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Mitchell v. State · 813 So. 2d 724 - Evans v. State
“The United States Supreme Court has held that giving a jury instruction allowing consideration of sympathy or mercy could induce a jury to base its sentencing decision upon emotion, whim, and caprice instead of upon the evidence presented at trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 989 So. 2d 320 - Chamberlin v. State · 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell 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.