358 So. 2d 10 - Alvarez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 2004 WI App 181 - State v. Stenzel (2004), 438 So. 2d 369 - Harmon v. State (1983)
61 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 State v. Wershow · 351 So. 2d 957 - Earnest v. State · Byrd v. State · The People v. Pace · Welch v. McDonald
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We also reject petitioner's contention that the statute is unconstitutionally vague and indefinite. Although no person can predict the maximum length of time which can be served by a prisoner under a sentence of life, this in itself does not render a life sentence impermissibly indefinite.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“a term of years not exceeding life imprisonment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. State · Harmon v. State“Is a sentence of imprisonment for a term of years greater than the life expectancy of the sentenced person lawful”
2 later decisions 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.