375 So. 2d 1069 - Dobbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), Stringer v. Black (1992)
26 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 Gardner v. Florida · Dobbert v. Florida · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 346 So. 2d 998 - Elledge 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts suggesting a sentence of death [are] so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although two aggravating circumstances were improperly determined to exist, we conclude that the trial court properly found that the murder was committed to avoid lawful arrest and was especially heinous and cruel... . * * * * * * ... The evidence is not such as would require the trial court to find any of the mitigating circumstances proposed by Dobbert as a matter of law. Since there are one or more validly found aggravating circumstances and no mitigating circumstances, a reversal of the death sentence is not necessarily required. Elledge v. State, 346 So.2d 998 (Fla. 1977); Hargrave v. State, 366 So.2d 1 (Fla. 1978). [ 375 So.2d at 1070, 1071 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the murder was committed to avoid lawful arrest and was especially heinous and cruel.”
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.