Floyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
93
cited by 93 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
June 1987
most recently cited
87 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Gregg v. State · Coley v. State · Whitlock v. State · House 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unusual in that they are rarely imposed for (armed robbery). Thus, under the test provided by statute, . . . they must be considered to be excessive or disproportionate to the penalties imposed in similar cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gregg v. Georgia
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.