701 So. 2d 799 - Pleasant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 711 So. 2d 458 - Collier v. State (1998), 909 So. 2d 731 - Dilworth v. State (2005)
41 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 White v. United States · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State · McFee v. State · 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only in those cases where the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice will this Court disturb it on appeal.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McNulty v. State · Drake v. State“[o]ur case law is axiomatic on the proposition that the jury is arbiter of the credibility of testimony. `It is, of course, within the province of the jury to determine the credibility of witnesses....'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. State · Cross v. State“[a] lesser-included[-]offense instruction is authorized if a rational or reasonable jury could find the defendant not guilty of the principal offense in the indictment, but guilty of the lesser-included offense.”
2 later decisions 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.