Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Zant v. Stephens (1983), Barclay v. Florida (1983)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Proffitt v. Florida · 346 So. 2d 998 - Elledge v. State · 332 So. 2d 615 - Jones v. State · 322 So. 2d 485 - Swan v. State · Burch 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he aggravating circumstances specified in the [Florida] statute are exclusive, and no others may be used for that purpose”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislature has not authorized consideration of the probability of recurring violent acts by the defendant if he is released on parole in the distant future. To the contrary, a large number of the statutory mitigating factors reflect a legislative determination to mitigate the death penalty in favor of a life sentence for those persons whose responsibility for their violent actions has been substantially diminished as a result of a mental illness, uncontrolled emotional state of mind, or drug abuse.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only assurance society can receive that this man never again commits to another human being what he did to that lady....”
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.