695 So. 2d 1229 - James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 722 So. 2d 177 - Donaldson v. State (1998), Mansfield v. State (2000)
64 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Hanil Bank v. Michelman · Toliver v. County of Sullivan · Clampitt v. Interinsurance Exchange
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court has wide discretion in instructing the jury, and the court's decision regarding the charge to the jury is reviewed with a presumption of correctness on appeal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]ear, emotional strain, and terror of the victim during the events leading up to the murder may make an otherwise quick death especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant need not request a curative instruction in order to preserve an improper comment issue for appeal. The issue is preserved if the defendant makes a timely specific objection and moves for a mistrial.”
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.