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403 So. 2d 377 - Stokes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
February 2004
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2004

1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 338 So. 2d 201 - Knight v. State · 323 So. 2d 557 - Halliwell v. State · 245 So. 2d 642 - Coleman 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the emotional trauma experienced by the jury in seeing this young man in the presence of his family members suggests that the Court view the sentence in light of judicial experience and impose a sentence based upon reasoned judgment. The Court is of the opinion that the facts suggesting a sentence of death for the commission of this murder is so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ and the mitigating circumstances do not override or outweigh the aggravating circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[t]here was no atmosphere of coercion surrounding his confession.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “lack of any significant history of prior criminal activity,”
    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.