Avila v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 573 So. 2d 306 - State v. Smith · 660 So. 2d 1038 - State v. Hamilton · 287 So. 2d 73 - State v. Bryan · State v. Lucas · Hamilton 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]hat is important is that sufficient instructionsnot necessarily academically perfect onesbe given as adequate guidance to enable a jury to arrive at a verdict based upon the law as applied to the evidence before them.'”
2 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.