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711 So. 2d 458 - Collier v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

133
cited by 133 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

133 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 909 So. 2d 731 - Dilworth v. State (2005), Jefferson v. State (2002)

133 state decisions

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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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · McFee 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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when convinced that the circuit court has abused its discretion in failing to grant a new trial.”
    31 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jefferson v. State · Otis v. State
  2. “the benefit of all favorable inferences that may reasonably be drawn from the evidence.”
    20 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Langston v. State · Drake v. State
  3. “[O]ur case law clearly holds that the unsupported word of the victim of a sex crime is sufficient to support a guilty verdict where that testimony is not discredited or contradicted by other credible evidence, especially if the conduct of the victim is consistent with the conduct of one who has been victimized by a sex crime.”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. McCoy v. State · Ronald Benjamin Clements v. State of Mississippi

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.