397 So. 2d 663 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 496 So. 2d 138 - McGarry v. State (1986), 403 So. 2d 418 - Combs v. State (1981)
1 district · 41 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 Weaver v. Graham · Weaver v. Graham · Rodriguez v. State · Williams 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that for many years prior to section 947.16's enactment, the Parole and Probation Commission informally gave notice to the sentencing judge of a prisoner's parole date and sought the judge's comments. Our decision today should in no manner restrict the commission from seeking information or advice from any source concerning a prisoner's parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) does the law attach legal consequences to crimes committed before the law took effect, and (2) does the law affect the prisoners who committed those crimes in a disadvantageous fashion?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“then the law constitutes an ex post facto law and is void as applied to those prisoners.”
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.