McEachern v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2010
15 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 346 So. 2d 538 - State v. Dye · Gillman v. State · 269 So. 2d 407 - National Car Rental System, Inc. v. Holland · Mastan Company v. American Custom Homes, Inc. · Exchange Natn'l Bk. of Tampa v. Hospital & Welfare Bd. Hillsborough Cty.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The law is clear that any judicially imposed penalty which needlessly discourages assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty and deters the exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to demand a jury trial is patently unconstitutional.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. TR v. State“[s]ince he was not so charged, we can only assume that the State did not intend to charge him with the higher degree of the crime, although we fail to understand why it was done.”
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.