Harvard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
14 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 Gardner v. Florida · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 397 So. 2d 648 - Palmes v. State · 374 So. 2d 944 - Holmes 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclusion that the death sentence was again appropriate clearly indicates that his finding is based upon the failure of the defense to present sufficient evidence at resentencing to rebut the information contained in the confidential portion of the presentence investigation report or in the military records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvard v. Florida“[s]uch impeachment should have been done at trial and it therefore appears that this was a wrongful attempt to belatedly impeach evidence presented by the State to the advisory jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvard v. Florida“that the trial judge failed to adequately consider mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.