407 So. 2d 218 - Mills v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2017
24 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 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 401 So. 2d 1343 - State v. Rivers · 375 So. 2d 836 - State v. Pinder · Cameron v. United States · 390 So. 2d 315 - King 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of some definitive break in the chain of circumstances beginning with the felony and ending with the killing, the felony, although technically complete, is said to continue to the time of the killing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]either the passage of time nor separation in space from the felonious act to the killing precludes a felony murder conviction when it can be said . . . that the killing is a predictable result of the felonious transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]the application of a rule of technical termination of the felony would produce the absurd result that felony murder would be precluded in all instances where the killing followed the `completion' of the 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.