State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1995
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 433 So. 2d 104 - State v. Square · State v. Smith
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]efendant's criminal conduct was violent and unjustified. The conduct of the victim did not induce the commission of the crime ... [D]efendant's criminal conduct was likely to recur, with little provocation needed. These considerations, coupled with the extreme brutality and the senseless nature of the crime, clearly outweigh defendant's lack of prior felony convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kitchen“a sentence is excessive and unconstitutional if the penalty is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime or if it is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kitchen
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.