474 So. 2d 1170 - Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State (1990), 525 So. 2d 833 - Grossman v. State (1988)
45 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 Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson v. State · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al. · Heiney 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“collectively ... a significant mitigating factor”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“death penalty is not proportionally warranted”
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.