421 So. 2d 1216 - Laney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State (1984), 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State (1984)
67 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. Freeman · 361 So. 2d 1360 - Irving v. State · Hill v. Mississippi · 355 So. 2d 1381 - Odom v. State · 207 So. 2d 108 - Harvey 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize that thoroughness and intensity of review are heightened in cases where the death penalty has been imposed. [citation omitted] What may be harmless error in a case with less at stake becomes reversible error when the penalty is death.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as (1) not to know the nature and the quality of the act he was doing, or (2) if he did not know it that he did not know that he was doing what was wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. State · Laney v. State“"We recognize that thoroughness and intensity of review are heightened in cases where the death penalty has been imposed. [Citation omitted] What may be harmless error in a case with less at stake becomes reversible error when the penalty is death." 361 So.2d at 1363 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkton v. State · Hill v. State
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.