388 So. 2d 664 - State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Brogdon (1984), Massie v. Sumner (1981)
2 federal appellate · 66 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. Madison · 337 So. 2d 1201 - State v. Overton · State v. Verret · 331 So. 2d 443 - State v. Governor · 340 So. 2d 208 - State v. Clark
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularly painful and inhuman manner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his does not imply that he would therefore accept their testimony without question”
2 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.