Vaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2016
16 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 245 So. 2d 225 - State v. Ashby · 376 So. 2d 382 - Brown v. State · 464 So. 2d 538 - Walter v. Walter · 613 So. 2d 1301 - Files v. State · State v. Carr
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n issue is dispositive only if, regardless of whether the appellate court affirms or reverses the lower court's decision, there will be no trial of the case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Review of whether the trial court has applied the correct legal rule is de novo, because application of an incorrect rule is erroneous as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Furr“an Ashby nolo plea is permissible only when the legal issue to be determined on appeal is dispositive of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fernandez v. State
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.