711 So. 2d 1176 - Palazon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2012
13 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · 418 So. 2d 984 - Simpson v. State · 457 So. 2d 1084 - Ryan v. State · 421 So. 2d 15 - Jackson v. State · Washington 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The problem of improper argument is not of recent origin. In Washington v. State, 86 Fla. 533 , 98 So. 605 (1923), Justice Terrell wrote: It is proper to state in this connection that excessive vituperation or ridiculous epithets are out of place and should not be indulged in criminal prosecutions. The prosecuting attorney occupies a semijudicial position. He is a sworn officer of the government, with no greater duty imposed on him than to preserve intact all of the great sanctions and traditions of the law. It matters not how guilty a defendant in his opinion may be, it is his duty under oath to see that no conviction takes place except in strict conformity to law. His primary considerations should be to develop the facts and the evidence for the guidance of the court and jury, and not to consider himself merely as attorney of record for the state, struggling for a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Pendarvis v. State“Although actual data is not available, it is the impression of this writer and other members of this court that an unusually high proportion of these cases originate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When an objection is overruled, counsel is not required to move for a mistrial in order to preserve the issue for appellate review”
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.