465 So. 2d 490 - Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 714 So. 2d 411 - Urbin v. State (1998), 575 So. 2d 181 - Jackson v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Wingo v. Wedding · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Cabrera-Martinez v. United States · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence clearly established that after the defendant and the co-defendants had entered the dwelling and subdued the victims that it was realized that the victim Melanie King had gone to school with the defendants Hertz and Dempsey. At one time, the victim King and her family lived across the street from the Hertz family. The defendants discussed and determined, especially the defendant Hertz, that they would leave no witnesses. The methodical execution of the victims by the defendant and his co-defendants with multiple shots to the head and destruction of the victims' home and bodies by fire to eliminate evidence establishes a dominant motive to eliminate witnesses and evidence for the purpose of avoiding or preventing arrest. This aggravating factor was proven beyond all reasonable doubt and accorded great weight in determination of any appropriate sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it must be clearly shown that the dominant or only motive for the murder was the elimination of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he mere fact of a death is not enough to invoke this factor when the victim is not a law enforcement official. Proof of the requisite intent to avoid arrest and detection must be very strong in these cases.”
1 later decision 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.