710 So. 2d 304 - State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 2014
3 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 438 So. 2d 1091 - State v. Johnson · 305 So. 2d 421 - State v. Hodgeson · State v. Green · 679 So. 2d 184 - State v. Colligan
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The no-judge comment rule is designed to safeguard the role of the jury as the sole judge of the facts on the issue of guilt or innocence. Thus, if the effect of a comment is to permit a reasonable inference that it expresses or implies the judge's opinion as to the defendant's innocence or guilt, this constitutes a violation of the defendant's statutory right to no-comment and thus requires a reversal. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The judge in the presence of the jury shall not comment upon the facts of the case, either by commenting upon or recapitulating the evidence, repeating the testimony of any witness, or giving an opinion as to what has been proved, not proved, or refuted.”
1 later decision 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.