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← 100 Fla. 1603 - Sawyer v. State

Sawyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1931

Citation profile

44
cited by 44 later decisions
6
states following
September 2004
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Heggs v. State (2000), 476 So. 2d 1262 - Linehan v. State (1985)

2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions

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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 Suarez v. State of Florida · Cox v. State · State v. Young · State v. McGowan · Davis 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]hile it is generally held that a dwelling house loses its character as a habitation when it ceases to be dwelt in, or is abandoned as a dwelling and closed up, or is converted into a place for other purposes than human occupancy; ... the temporary absence of its tenants will not take away from a house its character as a habitation or dwelling house, provided the absence is not unreasonably prolonged and there is an intention to return.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. PPM v. State
  2. “should allege that the dwelling house burned was the dwelling house of a certain person or persons, naming him or them, and that the evidence to sustain such charge should show that the dwelling house burned was the habitation of such person or persons so designated in the indictment or information”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 60 So. 2d 734 - State v. Cootner

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.