438 So. 2d 803 - Engle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Penix (1987), 753 So. 2d 29 - Rodriguez v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 57 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 Bruton v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Pointer v. Texas · Williams v. People of State of New York · Gardner v. Florida
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sentencing is a critical stage of the criminal proceeding”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he trial judge . . . is not limited in sentencing to consideration of only that material put before the jury, is not bound by the jury's recommendation, and is given final authority to determine the appropriate sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conducted with that degree of fairness and security that the bill of rights contemplates, and do not believe that he has good reason to believe that he was deprived of any fundamental rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.