339 So. 2d 204 - Chambers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State (1990)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Proffitt v. Florida · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 336 So. 2d 1133 - Cooper v. State · 322 So. 2d 533 - Alvord 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.
“has been assigned by history and statute the responsibility to discern truth and mete out justice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garden v. State · Mann v. Dugger“In order to sustain a sentence of death following a jury recommendation of life, the facts suggesting a sentence of death should be so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCray v. Florida
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.