Sexton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 719 So. 2d 1197 - Gore v. State (1998), 787 So. 2d 732 - Bradley v. State (2001)
43 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 533 So. 2d 744 - Bryan v. State · 648 So. 2d 660 - Heath v. State · 528 So. 2d 353 - Garron v. State · Saffor 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court has broad discretion in determining the relevance of evidence and such a determination will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]elevant evidence is inadmissible if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of issues, misleading the jury, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ll relevant evidence is admissible, except as provided by law.”
2 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.