Willis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 1997
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 421 So. 2d 661 - Cordero-Pena v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the trial court erred in retaining jurisdiction over the life sentence because a life span is immeasurable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wainwright 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.