Fleming v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982), Ford v. Strickland (1983)
28 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Proffitt v. Florida · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 337 So. 2d 783 - Provence v. State · 336 So. 2d 1133 - Cooper 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n `attempt' consists of two essential elements: (1) a specific intent to commit the crime, and (2) a separate overt, ineffectual act done towards its commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant was previously convicted of another capital felony or of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Strickland
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.