811 So. 2d 317 - Laster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2006
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. State · 711 So. 2d 458 - Collier v. State · Crenshaw v. State · 728 So. 2d 568 - Berry v. State · Burrell 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury in a murder case may be instructed on and permitted to convict of the lesser crime of manslaughter so long as the facts are reasonably capable of being interpreted to support a manslaughter conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jury declined to convict for murder but returned a guilty verdict on the lesser offense of manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw
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.