762 So. 2d 879 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 202 So. 3d 40 - Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida (2016), 852 So. 2d 226 - FB v. State (2003)
110 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 Faretta v. California · Sutton v. United States · Tison v. Arizona · Pope v. Nebraska · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the error must reach down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State · Randolph v. State“failing to raise a contemporaneous objection when improper closing argument comments are made waives any claim concerning such comments for appellate review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State · Morton v. State“either deprive the defendant of a fair and impartial trial, materially contribute to the conviction, be so harmful or fundamentally tainted as to require a new trial, or be so inflammatory that they might have influenced the jury to reach a more severe verdict than that it would have otherwise.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.