Cotton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Spierings v. Alaska · 492 So. 2d 360 - Garcia v. State · 62 So. 2d 892 - Coco v. State · 561 So. 2d 536 - Rivera v. State · 550 So. 2d 102 - Eberhardt 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) there must have been an event startling enough to cause nervous excitement; (2) the statement must have been made before there was time to contrive or misrepresent; and (3) the statement must have been made while the person was under the stress of excitement caused by the startling event.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“However, if a defendant's out of court statement is not offered by the defendant to prove the truth of its content, it is not hearsay and should be admitted, provided the purpose for which the statement is being offered is relevant to a material issue in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether the necessary state of mind is present for a court to admit a statement as an `excited utterance' exception is a preliminary fact for the trial court's determination”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werley 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.