697 So. 2d 39 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2010
7 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 446 So. 2d 729 - State v. Prudholm · Morris v. Schlumberger, Ltd. · 597 So. 2d 990 - State v. Hammons · 458 So. 2d 907 - State v. Cheatwood
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When ruling on an Article 851(3) motion, a trial judge's duty is not to weigh the new evidence as though he were a jury deciding guilt or innocence or to determine what is true or false in light of the additional information. In other words, the trial judge is not to assess the newly discovered evidence as though he were a thirteenth juror.... [T]he trial judge should not weigh the new evidence as if he or she were a jury deciding guilt or innocence ... but should ascertain whether there is new material fit for a new jury's judgment. The only issue is whether the result will probably be different. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spring
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.