471 So. 2d 1297 - State v. Mena’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2017
1 federal appellate · 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 419 So. 2d 1194 - Thomas v. Ratiner · Wilkerson v. State · Hamilton v. State · State v. Smith · Strobhar 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.
“(5) Alternative or Disjunctive Allegations. For an offense that may be committed by doing 1 or more of several acts, or by 1 or more of several means, or with 1 or more of several intents or results, it is permissible to allege in the disjunctive or alternative such acts, means, intents^ or results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“since the gist of the offense is the conspiracy, it is immaterial whether any of the acts alleged were actually committed and who of the conspirators committed them if committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so vague, indistinct and indefinite as to mislead the accused and embarrass him in the preparation of his defense... .”
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.