Caruthers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2015
6 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 672 So. 2d 865 - Stewart v. State · 710 So. 2d 83 - Deluge 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no determination in this case, as a matter of law, that an ax handle was a deadly weapon. Therefore, it was error to refuse the instruction on the justifiable use of non-deadly force. Further, it is not harmless error where the court fails to instruct the jury on the non-deadly force in an aggravated battery case involving a weapon that is not deadly as a matter of law.”
1 later decision 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.