Weatherspoon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2011
18 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 306 So. 2d 104 - Negron v. State · 413 So. 2d 112 - Jackson v. State · 397 So. 2d 1218 - Harmon 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]uch a discretionary assessment of value is permissible only in `those rare cases where the minimum value of an item of property is so obvious as to defy contradiction.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Proof of the element of value is essential to a conviction for grand theft and must be established by the state beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt.”
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.