343 So. 2d 29 - Huckaby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2009 · most notably Ford v. Strickland (1983), William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger (1987)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 · Brown v. State · Thomas v. United States · 336 So. 2d 1133 - Cooper 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ignored every aspect of the medical testimony ... when he found that no mitigating circumstances existed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our decision here is based on the causal relationship between the mitigating and aggravating circumstances. The heinous and atrocious manner in which this crime was perpetrated, and the harm to which the members of Huckaby's family were exposed, were the direct consequence of his mental illness, so far as the record reveals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State“The sentence of death is vacated, however, and this case is remanded to the circuit court with directions to enter a sentence of life imprisonment on the sixth count. For the reason expressed in Anderson v. State, 267 So.2d 8 (Fla. 1972), it is not necessary to return Huckaby to the trial court for resentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lecroy 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.