699 So. 2d 876 - State v. Vale’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2011
19 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 Sullivan v. Louisiana · 627 So. 2d 1373 - State v. Code · 647 So. 2d 337 - State v. Harris · 666 So. 2d 1070 - State v. Vale · 345 So. 2d 1173 - State v. Schwander
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a reviewing court may declare an error harmless beyond a reasonable doubt it must find that the verdict `actually rendered in this trial was surely unattributable to the error.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“foreclosing cross-examination of Scott on her expectations for her own case ... unduly `restricted the inquiry into the witness's motive and interest in testifying for the state and thereby frustrated an `important function of the constitutionally protected right of cross-examination.'”
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.