337 So. 2d 783 - Provence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Jenkins (1984), Barclay v. Florida (1983)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 141 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 · Williams v. People of State of New York · Specht v. Patterson · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder 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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refer to the same aspect of the defendant's crime.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“another capital felony or ... felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“intended as it was to meet the constitutional infirmity of capital sentencing procedures explored in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 , 92 S.Ct. 2726 , 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972), is designed to limit the unbridled exercise of judicial discretion in cases where the ultimate penalty is possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tanzi v. State · Barclay v. State
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.