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← 306 So. 2d 141 - Harper v. State

306 So. 2d 141 - Harper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 1994
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on The People v. Pace · 262 So. 2d 902 - Cole v. State · 197 So. 2d 323 - Evans v. State · Blackman v. State · Wallace 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “I confess inability to specify the term of years which would be less than life... . I am quite certain, however, that a sentence of 130 years is for a term of years in excess of `life or any lesser term of years'... .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 358 So. 2d 10 - Alvarez v. State
  2. “that life imprisonment be the upper limit of the punishment imposed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 352 So. 2d 88 - Ringel v. State
  3. “imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life imprisonment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 352 So. 2d 88 - Ringel 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.