382 So. 2d 921 - State v. Ortego’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno (1980), 445 So. 2d 1171 - State v. Williams (1984)
135 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 State v. Sepulvado · 369 So. 2d 118 - State v. Cox · 360 So. 2d 842 - State v. Jackson · 353 So. 2d 1013 - State v. Underwood
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant is convicted of two or more offenses based on the same act or transaction, or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the terms of imprisonment shall be served concurrently unless the court expressly directs that some or all be served consecutively. Other sentences of imprisonment shall be served consecutively unless the court expressly directs that some or all of them be served concurrently. In the case of the concurrent sentence, the judge shall specify, and the court minutes shall reflect, the date from which the sentences are to run concurrently.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pittman · State v. Stacy“(b)ased on the American theory and practice, concurrent rather than consecutive sentences are the usual rule, at least for a defendant without previous criminal record and in the absence of a showing that the public safety requires a longer sentence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“state for the record the considerations taken into account and the factual basis therefor in imposing sentence.”
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.