852 So. 2d 226 - FB v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 156 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 365 So. 2d 701 - Castor v. State · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · Steinhorst v. State · 616 So. 2d 1 - State v. Johnson · 124 So. 2d 481 - Brown 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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n argument that all evidence is totally insufficient as a matter of law to establish the commission of a crime need not be preserved. Such complete failure of the evidence meets the requirements of fundamental errori.e., an error that reaches to the foundation of the case and is equal to a denial of due process.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o be of such fundamental nature as to justify a reversal in the absence of timely objection 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.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“occurs when the evidence is insufficient to show that a crime was committed at all.”
6 later decisions 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.