403 So. 2d 418 - Combs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Dugger v. Adams (1989), Justus v. Florida (1984)
3 federal appellate · 52 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 Weaver v. Graham · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a cold, calculated, and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adds limitations to those elements for use in aggravation, limitations which inure to the benefit of a defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cold, calculated ... and without any pretense of moral or legal justification.”
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.