Valassakis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1992
8 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 Coston v. State · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Citizens & Peoples National Bank · 171 So. 2d 591 - Rosengarten v. State · Henson 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an intent exists to do wrong, and an unintended illegal act ensues as a natural and probable consequence, or if in committing the act an unintended victim is struck down, the original intent as a matter of law is transferred from the one against whom it was entertained to the person who actually suffered the consequences of the unlawful act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * * * * “ * * * It has been said that the obvious purpose of statutes like the one under consideration here is to avoid the pitfalls of pleading where a defendant might escape a conviction for one offense by proof he had committed another. * * * ” Ifc i}i Sji #”
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.