398 So. 2d 439 - Dougan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016
9 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 Gardner v. Florida · Voyles v. Mississippi · 365 So. 2d 696 - Songer v. State · 371 So. 2d 1007 - Kampff v. State · Eastern Central Motor Carriers Ass'n v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our directive was quite clear that this Court would review a reimposition of the death penalty 'limited to matters related to the compliance with this order.' . . . Our vacation of Dougan's death sentence for Gardner relief was technically-based, serving the sole purpose of allowing Dougan's counsel to demonstrate that matters contained in the pre-sentence investigation report were improper and prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.