376 So. 2d 230 - Cobb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Hardwick v. State (1988), 443 So. 2d 955 - State v. Murray (1984)
36 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 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · Perry v. State · 346 So. 2d 991 - State v. Winters · 361 So. 2d 406 - State v. Joyce · Campbell 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the error committed was so prejudicial as to vitiate the entire trial.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Delgado v. State · Freeman v. State“unnecessarily kill another, either while resisting an attempt by such other person to commit any felony, or to do any other unlawful act, or after such attempt shall have failed ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the words "unnecessarily kill" in section 782.11 are considered together with the remainder of chapter 782, they are sufficiently precise to meet the constitutional standard for definiteness in penal statutes. Homicides committed while resisting another's unlawful act are punishable only if not excusable, as provided in section 782.03, Florida Statutes (1975), or if not justifiable, as provided in section 782.02 or chapter 776, Florida Statutes (1975). Read with these provisions, section 782.11 is not impermissibly vague.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.