232 So. 2d 44 - Wingate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably Wingate v. Wainwright (1972), McGahee v. Massey (1982)
2 federal appellate · 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 223 So. 2d 713 - Shingleton v. Bussey · 109 So. 2d 7 - Singer v. State · 49 So. 2d 332 - Cornelius v. State · 133 So. 2d 729 - Spencer 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . I hope you realize that there is more at stake today than one man's freedom. I think there is at stake today the protection and safety of society. [Defense counsel] is asking you to let this man walk back on the streets again; and I am asking you not to; I am asking you not to allow this man to go back on the street and to redo those things that he has done.”
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.