400 So. 2d 762 - State v. Yu’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably United States v. Marshall (1990), State v. Bussey (1985)
1 federal appellate · 40 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sullivan v. Ashe · 395 So. 2d 514 - State v. Benitez · 63 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Mayberry · Hamilton 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.
“The legislature reasonably could have concluded that a mixture containing cocaine could be distributed to a greater number of people than the same amount of undiluted cocaine and thus could pose a greater potential for harm to the public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Any person who knowingly sells, manufactures, delivers, or brings into this state, or who is knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, 28 grams or more of cocaine as described in s. 893.02(2)(a)4. or any mixture containing cocaine is guilty of a felony of the first degree, which felony shall be known as `trafficking in cocaine.'" (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`while it may not be wise to let the possessor of the pure or a purer product escape with a lighter penalty than that going to the possessor of the drug in its ordinary marketable form, it is not necessary for a legislature to attempt to eradicate all evil, but only part of it... .'”
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.