316 So. 2d 539 - Slater v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Proffitt v. Florida (1976), Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978)
3 federal appellate · 76 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 Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Jackson · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 303 So. 2d 632 - Sullivan v. State · 307 So. 2d 433 - Alford 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants should not be treated differently upon the same or similar facts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Farina v. State“[t]he record clearly reflects that the defendant-appellant, Slater, was an accomplice and did not have the murder weapon in his hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court that tried the appellant also permitted the `triggerman'... to enter a plea of nolo contendere”
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.