Francois v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Sochor v. Florida (1992), Rolling v. State (1997)
27 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 United States v. Agurs · Lockett v. Ohio · Castaneda v. Partida · Patterson v. United States · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the trial court's sentencing errors resulted in the recitation of three statutory aggravating circumstances that were not properly established by the evidence, we find that the sentences of death should still be upheld. Where the consideration of erroneous aggravating circumstances does not interfere with the weighing process prescribed by the statute because there are no mitigating circumstances to weigh, no resentencing is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glock v. Singletary“a defendant must be allowed to present evidence pertaining to the degree of his or her involvement in and the circumstances of the events upon which the previous convictions are based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stano v. Dugger“it would be a different case if the court had excluded evidence proffered by the defendant rebutting the state's evidence of aggravation or relative to any matter in mitigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stano v. Dugger
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.