381 So. 2d 1361 - State v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 537 - Manduley v. Superior Court (2002), 448 So. 2d 1013 - State v. Rhoden (1984)
82 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Gault · Stanley v. Illinois
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a child has the right to be treated as a juvenile delinquent only to the extent provided by our legislature.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Metzler · Parr v. State“(e) The state attorney shall in all cases have the right to take action, regardless of the action or lack of action of the intake officer, and shall determine the action which is in the best interest of the public and the child. The state attorney may: 4.With respect to any child who at the time of commission of the alleged offense was 16 or 17 years of age, file an information when in his judgment and discretion the public interest requires that adult sanctions be considered or imposed. Upon motion of a child charged with a misdemeanor, the case shall be transferred for adjudicatory proceedings as a child pursuant to s. 39.09(1) if it is shown by the child that he had not previously been found to have committed two delinquent acts, one of which involved an offense classified under Florida law as a felony; .... (Emphasis added)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]ven when a juvenile is convicted in adult court he is still given special treatment as a juvenile. Before imposing judgment, the trial court must ... determine whether juvenile or adult sanctions are appropriate.”
4 later decisions 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.