437 So. 2d 1218 - Cobb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2013
2 federal appellate · 18 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 In Re Ruth M. Buehrer · Owens v. Kelley · State v. Collett
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ T]hat the banishment provision bore a reasonable relationship to the purpose of probation; that the ends of justice and the best interest of the defendant and the public would be served; that public policy was not violated and the rehabilitative purpose of probation was not defeated; and that [the petitioner’s] rights under the First, Fifth[,] and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were not violated.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ratcliff v. State · Means v. State“suspended the sentence and put defendant Cobb on probation for five years conditioned that Cobb `leave Stone County' and stay '125 miles ... away' from the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`bear a reasonable relationship to the purposes of [his] probation.'”
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.