111 So. 2d 51 - Buchanan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Dunn v. United States · Steckler v. United States · Van Pelt v. Hilliard · Goodwin v. State · 55 So. 2d 559 - Hearn 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Supreme Court has had occasion to define these two words in their various forms in Luster v. State, 23 Fla. 339 , 2 So. 690 ; Pinson v. State, 28 Fla. 735 , 9 So. 706 ; Holton v. State, 28 Fla. 303 , 9 So. 716 ; Thomas v. State, 39 Fla. 437 , 22 So. 725 ; Penton v. State, 42 Fla. 560 , 28 So. 774 ; Whitehead v. State, 48 Fla. 64 , 37 So. 302 ; Faulkner v. State, 146 Fla. 769 , 1 So.2d 857 ; and Boles v. State, 158 Fla. 220 , 27 So.2d 293 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who shall handle, fondle or make an assault upon any male or female child under the age of fourteen years in a lewd, lascivious or indecent manner, or who shall knowingly commit any lewd or lascivious act in the presence of such child, without intent to commit rape where such child is female, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and punished by imprisonment in the state prison or county jail for not more than ten years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“801.02 Definitions "An offense under the provisions of this chapter shall include attempted rape, sodomy, attempted sodomy, crimes against nature, attempted crimes against nature, lewd and lascivious behavior, incest and attempted incest, assault (when a sexual act is completed or attempted) and assault and battery (when a sexual act is completed or attempted), when said acts are committed against, to, or with a person fourteen years of age or under.”
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.