Spaziano v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Spaziano v. Florida (1984), 136 S. Ct. 616 - Hurst v. Florida (2016)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Furman v. Georgia · Gardner v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Bullington v. Missouri
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he jury's function under the Florida death penalty statute is advisory only.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wimbley v. State · Hurst v. Florida“meets the clear and convincing test to allow override of the jury's recommendation in accordance with . . . Tedder v. State, 322 So.2d 908 (Fla.1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After all, Spaziano was known as `Crazy Joe.' When he was 20 years old he was involved in a serious accident. Ever since then he has not been `normal.' The jury could well find that he was entitled to the statutory mental mitigating factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.