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← 941 SO2D 843 - Whitlock v. State

Whitlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2016
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 532 So. 2d 985 - Jimpson v. State · 669 So. 2d 1383 - Jones v. State · Strahan v. State · 779 So. 2d 1125 - Fears v. State · Robinson 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “There is a difference, however, between a comment on the defendant’s failure to testify and a comment on the failure to put on a successful defense. The [S]tate is entitled to comment on the lack of any defense, and such comment will not be construed as a reference to the defendant’s failure to testify by innuendo and insinuation.”
    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.