437 So. 2d 276 - State v. Sherer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 865 So. 2d 284 - State v. Hampton (2004), State v. Lighten (1987)
84 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 369 So. 2d 118 - State v. Cox · 373 So. 2d 1307 - State v. Franks · State v. Sherer
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Because the function of the consecutive sentence should be similar to the sentence imposed on habitual or dangerous offenders, sentences for crimes arising from a single course of conduct should be concurrent rather than consecutive, absent a showing that the offender poses an unusual risk to the safety of the public."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McGhee · State v. White
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.