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← 863 SO2D 464 - Mathis v. State

Mathis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 727 So. 2d 1062 - Williams v. State · Caruthers v. State · Lenoir 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When the evidence fails to establish as a matter of law whether the type of force used was deadly or non-deadly, the defendant is entitled to instructions on the justifiable use of both types of force.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.