Seams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably Morris v. State (1906), 392 So. 2d 1280 - Sanders v. State (1980)
34 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 Mitchell v. State · Floyd v. State · Stewart v. State · Ball v. Farley, Spear & Co. · Birdsong 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be governed more by the facts of the case, as proved or admitted, and legitimate inferences from them, than by the mere opinions of witnesses, which are unsupported by facts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . throw light upon the animus of the perpetrator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.