420 So. 2d 578 - Mann v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), 677 So. 2d 258 - Orme v. State (1996)
29 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 Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt · 408 So. 2d 1024 - Jent v. State · 398 So. 2d 432 - Lewis v. State · Ford 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not presented with a copy of the Mississippi charge document and, thus, cannot determine whether it alleged, and the jury convicted him of, a breaking with intent to commit a crime of violence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he trial judge's findings in regard to the death sentence should be of unmistakable clarity so that we can properly review them and not speculate as to what he found... .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“V. SUMMARIZATION OF AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES A. WHETHER THE DEFENDANT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY INVOLVING THE USE OR THREAT OF VIOLENCE TO SOME PERSON. FACT: On September 24, 1981, the Defendant entered a plea of guilty to the crime of Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer as charged in Count Four of Case Number 81-4333-CF, in and for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, Duval County, Florida. Information reveals that when the Defendant was stopped for a traffic infraction police smelled odor of marijuana emanating from Defendant's automobile. Upon being arrested, Defendant resisted and physically confronted the police and had to be subdued and restrained. FACT: On June 7, 1965, as a 15-year-old juvenile, the Defendant shot another man with a .22 caliber revolver and on June 18, 1965, was committed to the Florida School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. Even though Defendant was not convicted of a felony because he was a juvenile, such an incident involves the use of violence to an innocent person and is removed from felony classification only because of the Defendant's age. FACT: On May 23, 1981, when the Defendant was arrested in 1557 North Davis Street following the shooting of Officer Szafranski he engaged in physical, bodily conflict with the police officers and had to be physically subdued and restrained. At that time and now Defendant was trained and skilled in the use of karate. FACT: Defendant now stands before this Court as the convicted murderer of Officer Tho”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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