Avila v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 2001
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · 751 So. 2d 537 - Goodwin v. State · 589 So. 2d 933 - Lowder v. State · 654 So. 2d 1295 - Shelton 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every defendant has the right to be tried based on the evidence against him, not on the characteristics or conduct of certain classes of criminals in general. Florida courts have frequently criticized the use of testimony from police officers regarding their experience with other criminals as substantive proof of a particular defendant’s guilt or innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mounds v. State
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.