406 So. 2d 108 - State v. Mayle’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2011
12 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 State v. Upton · 305 So. 2d 833 - State v. Kemp · 335 So. 2d 614 - State v. Kling · 388 So. 2d 254 - Turner v. State · State v. Tomblin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who willfully and unlawfully, [1] by fire or explosion, damages or causes to be damaged any structure, whether the property of himself or another, under any circumstances not referred to in subsection (1), [2] is guilty of arson in the second degree, which constitutes a felony of the second degree... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[‘Unlawfully’] must mean something more than the mere burning of one’s own property without any danger or damage to others or the property of others, nor intent to inflict such damage, (footnote omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“meaning of `unlawfully' has yet to be defined by the Florida courts,”
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.