Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2015
17 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 455 So. 2d 588 - Cooper v. State · 412 So. 2d 972 - Carroll v. State · 438 So. 2d 83 - Miller 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless otherwise provided by law, whenever a person is charged with a felony, except a felony in which the use of a weapon or firearm is an essential element, and during the commission of such felony the defendant carries, displays, uses, threatens, or attempts to use any weapon or firearm, or during the commission of such felony the defendant commits an aggravated battery, the felony for which the person is charged shall be reclassified .... (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tinsley“language of section 775.087(1) references the substantive criminal law, and not the allegations of the information or indictment. REVERSED. GOSHORN and THOMPSON, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] Attempted second degree murder is a second degree felony. In this case, the trial judge reclassified this charge to a first degree felony pursuant to section 775.087(1). [2] Second degree murder is defined as:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tinsley
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.