Sotola v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2007
7 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 Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Joseph Skilken & Co. v. City of Toledo · Acosta v. United States · United States v. Phillips · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t appears that Florida has no statutory or procedural authorization for substitution of an empanelled juror after discharge of the alternates and commencement of deliberations. In the event of timely objection, it should not be done.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Alternate jurors, in the order in which they are impanelled shall replace jurors who, prior to the time the jury retires to consider its verdict, become unable or disqualified to perform their duties.... Except as hereinafter provided regarding capital cases, an alternate juror, who does not replace a principal juror, shall be discharged at the same time the jury retires to consider its verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.