462 So. 2d 36 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
April 1993
most recently cited
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Florida Bar: Amendment to Rules of Criminal Procedure · 454 So. 2d 714 - Garcia v. State · Lawson 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.
“A lewd and lascivious assault upon a ten-year-old child is bad enough. But for a child to be subjected to such by one in familial authority to whom the child should be able to rely upon for protection and sanctuary from such vile conduct constitutes, by any standard, a substantial aggravating circumstance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins v. State · Lettman v. State“Reasons for deviating from the guidelines shall not include factors relating to the instant offenses for which convictions have not been obtained.”
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.