404 So. 2d 1106 - Shields v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2010
2 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Stirone v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Houltin v. United States · Barrett v. United States · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc.
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) It is unlawful for any person corruptly to give, offer, or promise to any public servant, or if a public servant, corruptly to request, solicit, accept, or agree to accept, a pecuniary or other benefit not authorized by law, for the past, present, or future performance, non-performance, or violation of any act or omission which the person believes to have been, or the public servant represents as having been, either within the official discretion of the public servant, in violation of a public duty, or in performance of a public duty. Nothing herein shall be construed to preclude a public servant from accepting rewards for services performed in apprehending any criminal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The addition extends the definition of `felony' to include criminal offenses committed outside this state which, if they were committed in this state, would be punishable by death or by imprisonment in the state penitentiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unmistakably encompasses crimes committed against other sovereigns, which if committed in Florida would be punishable by a Florida court as a felony.”
1 later decision 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.