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← 400 SO2D 80 - Berry v. State

Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
3
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 468 So. 2d 912 - Trianon Park Condominium v. City of Hialeah (1985), 493 So. 2d 1002 - Avallone v. Bd. of County Com'rs Citrus Cty. (1986)

1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

1201981199020002010decided

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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Stump v. Sparkman · Dalehite v. United States · Martinez v. California · Dennis v. Sparks

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[f]or reasons of public policy, a prosecutor enjoys absolute immunity for damages when the [sic] acts within the scope of his prosecutorial duties.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 768 So. 2d 1257 - Andrews v. Florida Parole Com'n · 612 So. 2d 586 - Parrotino v. City of Jacksonville
  2. “judges . . . are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 768 So. 2d 1257 - Andrews v. Florida Parole Com'n · 935 So. 2d 1266 - Montejo v. Martin Memorial Medical Center
  3. “in direct contravention of a legislatively crafted and judicially imposed mandatory minimum sentence”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 768 So. 2d 1257 - Andrews v. Florida Parole Com'n · 416 So. 2d 838 - Gobie v. FLORIDA PAROLE AND PROBATION COM'N

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.