400 So. 2d 5 - Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2012
1 federal appellate · 14 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 · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · Reed v. State of Florida · 386 So. 2d 525 - Shriner v. State · Forrest Lake 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]hould a sentencing judge intend to use any information not presented in open court as a factual basis for a sentence, he must advise the defendant of what it is and afford the defendant an opportunity to rebut it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court is not saying that there is an insufficient basis in the record to sustain the judge's imposition of the death penalty. There may very well be, notwithstanding the jury's recommendation of a life sentence. We are not making a substantive determination of what the proper sentence should be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. State“of its findings as to two aggravators on the testimony of an acquaintance of the appellant. However, even though the acquaintance testified at trial, the trial court's critical findings came from the acquaintance's deposition testimony which differed from that presented at trial.”
1 later decision 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.