447 So. 2d 1334 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 503 So. 2d 871 - Thompson v. State (1986), 469 So. 2d 720 - Hurst v. State (1985)
28 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 447 So. 2d 1325 - Wakefield v. State · 339 So. 2d 66 - Jett v. Honda Motor Company, Ltd.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Sentences for felonies shall be for a definite term of imprisonment ... within the following limitations: “(1) For a Class A felony, for life or not more than 99 years or less than 10 years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for a Class C felony, not more than 10 years or less than 1 year and 1 day,”
1 later decision 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.