401 So. 2d 123 - Bracewell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 600 So. 2d 374 - Burks v. State (1991), Berard v. State (1981)
30 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 In Re Bolden
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a clear expression in the Statute to the contrary, we think the law applicable at the time of the offense was intended to govern the offense, the offender, and all proceedings incident thereto, and we so hold.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MH v. State · Stewart v. State“[u]nless the statute contains a clear expression to the contrary, the law in effect at the time of the commission of the offense `govern[s] the offense, the offender, and all proceedings incident thereto.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at time of his offense, was not entitled to treatment as a juvenile, even though he fit definition of a”
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.