471 So. 2d 630 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 454 So. 2d 714 - Garcia v. State · 462 So. 2d 548 - Burch v. State · 458 So. 2d 13 - Carney v. State · 456 So. 2d 1305 - Brooks v. State · Alford 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“WHEN AN APPELLATE COURT FINDS THAT A SENTENCING COURT RELIED UPON A REASON OR REASONS THAT ARE IMPERMISSIBLE UNDER FLA.R.CRIM.P. 3.701 IN MAKING ITS DECISION TO DEPART FROM THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES, SHOULD THE APPELLATE COURT EXAMINE THE OTHER REASONS GIVEN BY THE SENTENCING COURT TO DETERMINE IF THOSE REASONS JUSTIFY DEPARTURE FROM THE GUIDELINES OR SHOULD THE CASE BE REMANDED FOR A RESENTENCING.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[n]o pretense of moral or legal justification'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.