455 So. 2d 588 - Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2017
11 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 Brown v. State · 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State · 199 So. 2d 100 - State v. Cole · Robinson v. State · 445 So. 2d 1050 - Smith 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reclassification” of offense laws. Admittedly, in some instances such a distinction may be without a difference in its practical effect, but the legislature has chosen to make a distinction. Enhancement is commonly associated with the province of the judge in sentencing, as in the case of habitual offenders, section 775.084, and the wearing of a mask, section 775.0845. Reclassification speaks to the degree of the crime charged, and in legislative application, appears to attach at the time the indictment or information is filed and not at the time a conviction is obtained. Section 775,081”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Reclassification speaks to the degree of the crime charged, and in the metaphysical legislative application, appears to attach at the aggravated manslaughter by culpable negligence of an officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, or paramedic, carried the same higher punishment as the other types of aggravated manslaughter already defined in the manslaughter statute. 10 time the indictment or information is filed . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reclassifies” all felonies with specified exceptions when certain conditions attend to the commission of the crimes. Cooper v. State, 455 So.2d 588, 589 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984). Subsections (2) and (3) of section 775.087, Florida Statutes,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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