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39 So. 3d 237 - Coicou v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Blockburger v. United States · 654 So. 2d 552 - State v. Gray · 591 So. 2d 614 - State v. McClain · 3 So. 3d 1067 - Valdes v. State · 476 So. 2d 1262 - Linehan v. State

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The Legislature in 1996, in response to our decision in Gray , enacted section 782.051, which created the offense of “Felony causing bodily injury.” See ch. 96-359, § 1, at 2052, Laws of Fla. In 1998, the Legislature substantially rewrote section 782.051 and retitled it “Attempted felony murder." See ch. 98-204, § 12, at 1970, Laws of Fla. Thus, attempted felony murder is specifically provided for by statute.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Any person who perpetrates or attempts to perpetrate any felony enumerated in s. 782.04(3) and who commits, aids, or abets an intentional act that is not an essential- element of the felony and that could, but does not, cause the death of another commits a felony of the first degree ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “An act is “imminently dangerous to another and demonstrating a depraved mind” if it is an act or series of acts that ... a person of ordinary judgment would know is reasonably certain to kill or do serious bodily injury to another....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

How this case has been treated — in progress

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