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← 465 SO2D 825 - State v. Cook

State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
June 1998
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright · State v. Duncan

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In providing a wide range of criminal sanctions for violations of a statute, the legislature obviously intends that the judge shall exercise his sentencing discretion to impose sentences gradated according to individualized circumstances of the offense and the offender.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “There is nothing in the law which requires that a sentencing judge treat co-defendants equally.”
    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.