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← 694 SO2D 731 - State v. Stevens

State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 666 So. 2d 131 - Simmons v. State · 590 So. 2d 982 - Jones v. State · Stevens 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the jury returns a verdict of guilty or is discharged without having returned a verdict, the defendant's motion [for judgment of acquittal] may be made or renewed within 10 days after the reception of a verdict and the jury is discharged or such further time as the court may allow.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a ground for judgment of acquittal may be raised for the first time in a posttrial motion.”
    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.