702 So. 2d 1250 - Blanco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), Jones v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 114 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 Jones v. State · Blanco v. Singletary · 507 So. 2d 1377 - Blanco v. Wainwright · 371 So. 2d 482 - Hallman v. State · 452 So. 2d 520 - Blanco 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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As long as the trial court's findings are supported by competent substantial evidence, `this Court will not substitute its judgment for that of the trial court on questions of fact, likewise of the credibility of the witnesses as well as the weight to be given to the evidence by the trial court.'”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]irst ... the asserted facts must have been unknown by the trial court, by the party, or by counsel at the time of trial, and it must appear that defendant or his counsel could not have known them by the use of diligence. Second, to prompt a new trial, the newly discovered evidence must be of such nature that it would probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the newly discovered evidence must be of such nature that it would probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
3 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.