382 So. 2d 943 - State v. Beavers’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno (1980), 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee (1983)
44 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Weems v. United States · Coker v. Georgia · 364 So. 2d 1283 - State v. Mallery · 364 So. 2d 1290 - State v. Terrebonne
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider the punishment and the crime in light of the harm to society caused by its commission and determine whether the penalty is so disproportinate to the crime committed as to shock our sense of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pearson · State v. James“reasonably corresponds to the risk that innocent people will be killed or harmed by drivers convicted of driving while intoxicated on at least four occasions”
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.