403 So. 2d 943 - Buford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Lockhart v. McCree (1986), 451 So. 2d 844 - State v. Hogan (1984)
2 federal appellate · 90 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Brown v. Ohio · Dobbert v. Florida
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the evidence shows that the accused had ample time to form a purpose to kill the deceased and for the mind of the killer to become fully conscious of his own design, it will be deemed sufficient in point of time in which to enable the killer to form a premeditated design to kill.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sentence of death is grossly disproportionate and excessive punishment for the crime of sexual assault and is therefore forbidden by the Eighth Amendment as cruel and unusual punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a 'convicted defendant cannot be "a little bit guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.