470 So. 2d 764 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2019
9 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 399 So. 2d 1137 - Vey v. Bradford Union Guidance Clinic, Inc. · 437 So. 2d 150 - Strickland v. State · 464 So. 2d 172 - Carter v. State · 388 So. 2d 1271 - Blanton v. State · 450 So. 2d 545 - Whitehead 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Second degree murder is a felony of the first degree, and when committed with a firearm, is reclassified as a life felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... “The guidelines shall be applied to felonies, except capital felonies, committed on or before October 1, 1983, and to all felonies, except capital felonies and life felonies, committed prior to October 1, 1983, for which sentencing occurs after such date when the defendant affirmatively selects to be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of this act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) For a life felony committed prior to October 1, 1983 by a term of imprisonment for life or for a term of years not less than 30.”
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.