310 So. 2d 89 - State v. Lindsey’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably State v. Smith (2000), 365 So. 2d 1304 - State v. Phillips (1978)
33 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Miller v. California · Nash v. United States · State v. Cloud
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the law is full of instances where a man's fate depends on his estimating rightly, that is, as the jury subsequently estimates it, some matter of degree. If his judgment is wrong, not only may he incur a fine or short imprisonment ...; he may incur the penalty of death.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . this guarantee requires that penal statutes describe the unlawful conduct with sufficient particularity and clarity such that ordinary men of reasonable intelligence are capable of discerning its meaning and conforming their conduct thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.