McGouirk v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1986
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State · 458 So. 2d 10 - Mitchell v. State · 452 So. 2d 136 - Manning v. State · 461 So. 2d 234 - Thomas 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rationale behind [ Palmer ] was that, because eligibility for parole was proscribed for the period of the mandatory sentence, `stacking' such sentences would result in parole ineligibility for a longer period than intended by the legislature,”
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.