436 So. 2d 93 - Combs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 455 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 465 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 658 So. 2d 523 - Haines City Community Dev. v. Heggs (1995), Boudreau v. Baughman (1988)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 455 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 Patterson v. United States · 117 So. 2d 731 - Dade County Port Authority v. Keller · 265 So. 2d 43 - Westerman v. Shell's City, Inc. · 307 So. 2d 166 - Scholastic Systems, Inc. v. Leloup · 329 So. 2d 302 - Chicken'N'Things v. Murray
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 465 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a violation of a clearly established principle of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice.”
94 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCray v. State · TMRMC v. Petersen“departure from the essential requirements of law”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“those few extreme cases where the appellate court's decision is so erroneous that justice requires that it be corrected.”
5 later decisions 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.