Barclay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), 403 So. 2d 943 - Buford v. State (1981)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Furman v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 337 So. 2d 783 - Provence 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The reason Stephen was shot twice in the head was because we had a jive pistol. It only shot twice and then it jammed; you can tell it must have been made in America because it wasn't worth a shit. He was stabbed in the back, in the chest and the stomach, ah, it was beautiful. You should have seen it. Ah, I enjoyed every minute of it. I loved watching the blood gush from his eyes. . . .' 23”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Eventually the five men headed for Jacksonville Beach where they picked up a hitch hiker, eighteen year old, Stephen Anthony Orlando. Against his will and over his protest they drove him to an isolated trash dump, ordered him out of the car, threw him down and Barclay repeatedly stabbed him with a knife. Dougan then put his foot on Orlando's head and shot him twice—once in the cheek and once in the ear killing him instantly. 19”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barclay v. Florida“'We are everywhere; you cannot hide from us. You have told your people to get off the streets and to stay home. That will not help, for one night they will come home and we will be there waiting. It has been said, look for us and you cannot see us; listen for us and you cannot hear us; feel for us and you cannot touch us. These are the characteristics of an urban guerilla.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barclay 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.