Finley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012
18 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 Harris v. Oklahoma · Viscardi v. United States · 375 So. 2d 836 - State v. Pinder · 234 So. 2d 409 - State Ex Rel. Wainwright v. Holley · 249 So. 2d 67 - Florida Peach Corp. v. Barron
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he remedy of habeas corpus is not available as a substitute for post-conviction relief under Rule 3.850”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since appellant was detained in Highlands County at the time of the filing of the petition below, the petition should have been filed in the Circuit Court for Highlands County rather than the Circuit Court for Okaloosa County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alday v. Singletary“Before a circuit judge the [habeas corpus] petition and the papers shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the prisoner is detained....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alday v. Singletary
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.