936 So. 2d 335 - Gates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 697 So. 2d 777 - Coleman v. State · Heidel v. State · 567 So. 2d 237 - Johnston v. State · 909 So. 2d 731 - Dilworth v. State · 759 So. 2d 368 - Humphrey 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court instructs the jury, that under the law, the Defendant is a competent witness in his own behalf, and that the Jury has no right to disbelieve him merely because he is a Defendant, and his testimony is entitled to such weight, faith, and credit as the Jury may think proper to give it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Field 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.