262 So. 2d 724 - Weathington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2007
14 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 Brown v. State · 262 So. 2d 902 - Cole v. State · Reed v. State · 237 So. 2d 249 - Jones 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While such a diversity in results between the two paths pursued by the convicted actors may be quite shocking to the judicial conscience of the appellate court, we must hold that since the sentence of thirty-five years in the state penitentiary is within the legal limits set by the statute, the sentence is not subject to review in this court. See Brown v. State, 152 Fla. 853 , 13 So.2d 458 (1943); cf. Cole v. State, Fla.App. 1972, 262 So.2d 903 . Weathington v. State, 262 So.2d at 725.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the thirty five years sentence imposed on the defendant by the trial judge after the denial of a pre-sentence investigation constitutes a denial of due process, an infliction of cruel and unusual punishment and the extraction of a gross penalty on the defendant’s exercise of his right to trial by jury guaranteed by the state and federal constitutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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