Witherspoon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1995
12 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 255 So. 2d 675 - Chesebrough v. State · 257 So. 2d 21 - Franklin v. State · 261 So. 2d 563 - Morris 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mohr v. State · Bell v. State“"Thus, we reaffirm our holding in Chesebrough v. State, supra [ 255 So.2d 675 (Fla. 1971)], and Franklin v. State, supra [ 257 So.2d 21 (Fla. 1971)], that the words `unnatural and lascivious' or `lewd and lascivious' are of such a character that an ordinary citizen can easily determine what character of act is intended, and are thus secure from constitutional attack." Witherspoon v. State, etc., supra, at 612.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell 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.