439 So. 2d 875 - Messer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017
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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Gardner v. Florida · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Knight v. State · Sireci 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Habeas corpus is not a vehicle for obtaining a second determination of matters previously decided on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Hence even if petitioner were correct in his allegations that prospective jurors were erroneously excused, he would not be entitled to have his conviction set aside... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hernandez v. State“the assertion that in our written opinion we must explicitly compare each death sentence with past capital cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pulley v. Harris
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.