Maxwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1997
1 federal appellate · 8 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 290 So. 2d 116 - Singletary v. State · 268 So. 2d 173 - Pope v. State · 257 So. 2d 242 - State v. Gazda · 306 So. 2d 581 - Darden v. State · 313 So. 2d 712 - Patterson 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intent of the legislature was to prevent the conferring of felony status upon the accused the first time he is found in possession of a small quantity of marijuana. But once possession has been judicially established, whether by a guilty plea, a nollo plea, or a jury verdict, the status of the second charge must not be determined on the basis of whether or not the judge had withheld adjudication pursuant to RCrP 3.670. If that were the controlling factor, a judge may be reluctant to exercise the power to withhold adjudication granted under the above rule. He might be unwilling to give the defendant an unwarranted second chance to risk no more than another misdemeanor charge should the defendant again possess marijuana. This in turn would be a great detriment to first offenders. Page 659. (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.