271 So. 2d 445 - Leonard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

cited by 32 later decisions

states following

March 2018

most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 607 So. 2d 1184 - Wallace v. State (1992), 291 So. 2d 593 - Gilliam v. Stewart (1974)

32 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 Roberts v. United States · In Re Application of White · Hord v. Commonwealth

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“that once a circuit or county court exercises its option to impose a definite sentence it cannot subsequently set that sentence aside and impose a greater sentence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Brown v. State · 933 So. 2d 1014 - Davis v. State
“. . . to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence, and place the defendant on probation . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 754 So. 2d 1207 - Carter v. State · 585 So. 2d 738 - Moore v. State
“impose any sentence which originally could have been imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Riddle v. State · 753 So. 2d 449 - Johnson v. State

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.