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446 So. 2d 90 - Oats v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
4
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 575 So. 2d 181 - Jackson v. State (1991), Butler v. State (2003)

36 state decisions

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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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Dobbert v. Florida · Murphy v. Florida · Rodriguez v. New York · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Although the use of this aggravating factor was in error at the time it was found, and we therefore disallow it, were we to remand for a new penalty phase trial the jury could properly consider evidence of the later, valid conviction.” Oats, 446 So. 2d at 95 .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 207 Ill. 2d 542 - People v. Blue · 472 So. 2d 1143 - Oats v. State
  2. “the mere fact of a death is not enough to invoke this factor.... Proof of the requisite intent to avoid arrest and detection must be very strong in these cases.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 465 So. 2d 490 - Bates v. State · 697 So. 2d 805 - Consalvo v. State
  3. “it must be clearly shown that the dominant or only motive for the murder was the elimination of”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 465 So. 2d 490 - Bates v. State · 509 So. 2d 1081 - Hansbrough v. State

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.