Alvord v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably 408 So. 2d 1024 - Jent v. State (1981), Commonwealth v. Casper (1978)
49 federal appellate · 202 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Janis
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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Coleman v. Risley
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.