468 So. 2d 1126 - State v. David’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), Commonwealth v. Holcomb (1985)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Zant v. Stephens · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significant prior history of criminal activity”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) adequate notice to individuals that certain contemplated conduct is proscribed; and (2) adequate standards for those charged with determining the guilt or innocence of an accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“); Conn. Gen.St. § 53A-46A(g)(2) (1980) (“one or more convictions for crimes involving serious bodily harm which are punishable at one or more years”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.