399 So. 2d 973 - Maggard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982)
56 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Adams v. Texas · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Wingo v. Wedding · In re Vendo Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]itigating factors are for the defendant's benefit, and the State should not be allowed to present damaging evidence against the defendant to rebut a mitigating circumstance that the defendant expressly concedes does not exist,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“has no significant history of prior criminal activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“infliction of a high degree of pain with utter indifference to, or even enjoyment of, the suffering of others.”
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.