705 So. 2d 1 - Monlyn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 751 So. 2d 537 - Goodwin v. State (1999), 722 So. 2d 177 - Donaldson v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 Henderson v. Brown · North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Midland Central Appraisal District v. Midland Industrial Service Corp. · McKay v. Jobin · Toski v. McDonnell
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the trial court can give the circumstantial evidence instruction, we have `expressly approved courts which have exercised their discretion and not given the instruction.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is exactly the kind of evidence contemplated by section 90.803(3)(a)2 . . . as satisfying the state of mind exception to explain subsequent conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“told others in prison that when he got out he was going to kill the victim; told [someone] that he was going to escape, get his shotgun, kill the first person he saw, steal the person's vehicle, and leave the area; concealed himself in the victim's barn and waited for him; and then kidnapped and murdered the victim and stole his truck.”
1 later decision 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.