Rizzo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2014
8 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 Bozza v. United States · 283 So. 2d 857 - Troupe v. Rowe · Kroll v. United States · Williams v. United States · 357 So. 2d 489 - Andrews 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that once a defendant has begun a lawfully-imposed sentence, the defendant may not thereafter be re-sentenced for an increased term of incarceration. [Citations omitted.] However, as the United States Supreme Court indicated in Bozza v. U.S., 330 U.S. 160 , 67 S.Ct. 645 , 91 L.Ed. 818 (1947), "the Constitution does not require that sentencing should be a game in which a wrong move by the judge means immunity for the prisoner," and as our own court has held in Williams v. State, 365 So.2d 201 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978), a trial court need not adhere to a sentence "merely because it has been announced." Accord, Kroll v. U.S., 433 F.2d 1282 (5th Cir.1970); Williams v. U.S., 422 F.2d 1318 (5th Cir.1970). The record in the present case does not suggest that the written judgment and sentence forms had been filed, or that appellant had commenced service of his sentence ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curtis 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.