461 So. 2d 79 - Hardwick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Harris v. California · Smith v. Florida · 408 So. 2d 1024 - Jent v. State · 346 So. 2d 998 - Elledge v. State · 376 So. 2d 1149 - Lucas 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he premeditation of a felony cannot be transferred to a murder which occurs in the course of that felony for purposes of this aggravating factor”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can the fact that it takes the victim a matter of minutes to die once the process begins support this finding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a degree of premeditation exceeding that necessary to support a finding of premeditated first-degree murder.”
2 later decisions 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.