McLamb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 464 So. 2d 77 - Mhoon v. State (1985), 532 So. 2d 584 - Doby v. State (1988)
27 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 Grillis v. State · State v. Russell · Wilson v. State · Walton v. State · Terry 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person convicted in this state of a felony who shall have been convicted twice previously ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person convicted in this state of a felony who shall have b,een convicted twice previously óf any felony or féderal crime upon charges separately brought and arising out of separate incidents at different times and who shall have been sentenced to separate terms of one (1) year or more in any state and/or federal penad institution, whether in this state or elsewhere, shall be sentenced to the maximum term of imprisonment- prescribed for such felony, and such sentence shall not be reduced or suspended nor shall such person be eligible for parole or probation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“penal statutes are to be interpreted strictly against the state and construed liberally in favor of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.