356 So. 2d 1294 - Kimbrough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1997
17 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 Brown v. State · Yost v. State · Lomax v. State · Hernandez v. State · Heisterman 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Count I alleges that the defendant attempted to unlawfully kill a human being and did shoot him with a firearm. This shooting surely constitutes a threat to do violence to another with the apparent ability to do so by an act which could create a well founded fear in the victim of imminent violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may or may not be included in the offense charged, depending on the accusatory pleading and the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.