Strahan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State (2003), 823 So. 2d 473 - Caston v. State (2002)
31 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 Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Barber v. Page · 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State · Foster 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough a direct reference to the defendant's failure to testify is strictly prohibited, all other statements must necessarily be looked at on a case by case basis. . . . [T]he decision as to whether a prosecutor's comment was improper must be based on the context in which the comment was made.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, the question of whether the defendant has committed murder or manslaughter is ordinarily a question to be resolved by the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the comment of the prosecutor can reasonably be construed as a comment upon the failure of [the accused] to take the stand.”
3 later decisions 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.