Fayerweather v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Ullrich (1978), 356 So. 2d 269 - Soverino v. State (1978)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Gore v. United States · 313 So. 2d 692 - Estevez v. State · 322 So. 2d 477 - Jenkins v. Wainwright · 72 So. 2d 386 - Steele v. Mayo · 267 So. 2d 699 - Lore 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not unusual for a course of criminal conduct to violate laws that overlap yet vary in their penalties. Multiple sentences are even allowed for conduct arising from the same incident. Traditionally, the legislature has left to the prosecutor's discretion which violations to prosecute and hence which range of penalties to visit upon the offender.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris · Smith v. State“whether conduct which violates both the State Credit Card Crime Act, Section 817.60(1), (3), Florida Statutes 1973, and the provision making it unlawful to receive stolen property, Section 811.16, Florida Statutes 1973,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cogswell“shall not be construed to preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law ... unless such provision is inconsistent with [its] terms... .”
1 later decision 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.