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1974

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
11
states following
December 2016
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 137 Ill. 2d 382 - People v. Murray (1990), United States v. Gordon (1978)

1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Harris v. United States · Field v. Clark · United States v. Wiltberger · Stoutenburgh v. Hennick · Dendy v. Wilson

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

  1. “"The exclusive authority of the legislature to determine crimes and fix the punishment therefor is without question." 300 So.2d at 780 . [Emphasis added]. * * * * * * "We hold that the authority to determine crimes and fix the punishment therefor is vested exclusively in the legislature ..." 300 So.2d at 781 . [Emphasis added].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. May v. State
  2. “objects falling in the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in the position to have that view are subject to seizure and may be introduced in evidence,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 883 So. 2d 594 - McFarlin v. State
  3. “The exclusive authority of the legislature to determine crimes and fix the punishment therefor is without question.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. May 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.