335 So. 2d 826 - State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2005
21 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Baldwin v. New York · Hunt v. City of Jacksonville · Camp Phosphate Co. v. Anderson · 123 So. 2d 323 - Boyd v. County of Dade
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although this right [to a jury trial] has been carefully protected and enforced by this Court, it is not unlimited. It has long been established that this provision guarantees the right to trial by jury in only those cases in which the right was recognized at the time of the adoption of the State’s first constitution.... It does not extend to those cases where the right and the remedy with it were unknown at the time of the adoption of the first constitution, (citations omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Finally, we are influenced by the fact that, even if this statute had not been decriminalized and still involved a criminal violation for which incarceration was possible punishment, the right to a jury trial as provided by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution would not apply. Although the Sixth Amendment has been held to apply to the State through the due process cause of the Fourteenth, it has been recognized that there is a class of petty offenses, i.e., those which carry a maximum penalty of imprisonment of six months or less and a five hundred dollar fine or less which may be tried summarily before a judge sitting alone without a jury ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Oliver · State v. Oliver“[T]he right to a trial by jury has never been constitutionally required for violations of Fla. Stat. § 325.12 , F.S.A., or for any other traffic law violation. While it is true that jury trials were provided for prior to the enactment of Florida's decriminalization law, the right was a statutory one only; it has never been, and is not now, a constitutionally required right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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