Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State (2002), 863 So. 2d 271 - Johnston v. State (2003)
38 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 668 So. 2d 954 - Terry v. State · 573 So. 2d 284 - Holton v. State · 493 So. 2d 1019 - Wilson v. State · 104 So. 2d 352 - Larry v. State · 696 So. 2d 738 - Coolen 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence from which premeditation may be inferred includes such matters as the nature of the weapon used, the presence or absence of adequate provocation, previous difficulties between the parties, the manner in which the homicide was committed, and the nature and manner of the wounds inflicted.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and he and his friend killed her. There were no witnesses to the events immediately preceding the homicide. Although Kulick had been stabbed three times, no weapon was recovered and there was no testimony regarding Green's possession of a knife. 715 So.2d at 941-44 . While the facts in Green were arguably stronger than those presented here, we nevertheless concluded:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong evidence militating against a finding of premeditation,”
3 later decisions 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.