371 So. 2d 1007 - Kampff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982)
54 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 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 323 So. 2d 557 - Halliwell 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means not a mere possibility but a likelihood or high probability. The great risk of death created by the capital felon's actions must be to”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coney v. State · Raulerson v. State“those capital crimes where the actual commission of the capital felony was accompanied by such additional acts as to set the crime apart from the norm of capital felonies the conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons.”
3 later decisions 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.