402 So. 2d 78 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2018
1 federal appellate · 4 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 306 So. 2d 520 - In Re Advisory Opinion of Governor Civil Rights · Crossley 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What appellant actually received was a partial restoration of his civil rights rather than a complete restoration. Under the governor's discretionary clemency power, appellant was restored to all other preconviction rights except the authority to possess or own a firearm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) It is unlawful for any person who has been convicted of a felony in the courts of this state or of a crime against the United States which is designated as a felony or convicted of an offense in any other state, territory, or country punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to own or to have in his care, custody, possession, or control any firearm or electric weapon or device or to carry a concealed weapon, including all tear gas guns and chemical weapons or devices. (2) This section shall not apply to a person convicted of a felony whose civil rights have been restored. (3) Any person convicted of violating this section is guilty of a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in section 775.082, section 775.083, or section 775.-084.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. France v. State“except the specific authority to possess or own a firearm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. State
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.