Matava v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2002
3 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 287 So. 2d 73 - State v. Bryan · State v. McHaney · In the Matter of Standard Jury Instructions · In Re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases · Bass 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant may not escape punishment for the offense upon the basis that his mental attitude or intention was actually to commit the higher crime of involuntary sexual battery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without the intent to commit involuntary sexual battery,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.