110 So. 2d 1 - Stanford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1996
23 state decisions
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 Thorburn Ross v. State of Oregon · Brown v. State · Commonwealth. v. Garramone · State v. Ross · State v. Jackson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In an unbroken line of decisions since Brown v. State, 152 Fla. 853 , 13 So.2d 458 , we have adhered to the principle that if a trial judge imposes a sentence that is within the limits defined by statute, the only relief is before the parole authorities."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The length of the sentences imposed in these cases on these young men sounds harsh when viewed in the cold light of this record, but such sentences are less than the maximum fixed by law and this Court has no power to reduce or modify them * * *." [8]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for life or for any lesser term of years, at the discretion of the court.”
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.