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358 So. 2d 943 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
8
states following
April 2015
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 367 So. 2d 283 - State Ex Rel. Bickman v. Dees (1978), Hawkins v. State (1985)

31 state decisions

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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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)

Relies on Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Kring v. State of Missouri · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · People v. Blue · State v. Guidry

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"We are satisfied that it is reasonable for the legislature in the interest of public welfare and safety to regulate the possession of firearms for a limited period of time by citizens who have committed certain specified serious felonies. Courts of other states having statutes and constitutional provisions comparable to our own have similarly concluded that such regulation is constitutionally permissible as a reasonable and legitimate exercise of police power." (citations omitted)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 432 So. 2d 234 - State v. Wiggins · 368 So. 2d 1037 - State v. Clement
  2. “become an ex post facto law because liability was premised upon a first conviction.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 788 So. 2d 515 - State v. Williams · 662 So. 2d 446 - State v. Rolen
  3. “puts the defendant on notice of the consequences of his contemplated act,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 788 So. 2d 515 - State v. Williams · 662 So. 2d 446 - State v. Rolen

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.