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476 So. 2d 194 - Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
October 2010
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 515 So. 2d 227 - Phillips v. Dugger (1987), 533 So. 2d 270 - Swafford v. State (1988)

35 state decisions

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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 State Ex Rel. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc. v. Fleet · Teague v. Tennessee · Brewer v. Indiana · King v. Florida · Pope 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[e]ven if preserved for review, this testimony was relevant to discredit appellant's alibi and to explain the context of an incriminating admission; consequently, its admission at trial was not error.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 748 So. 2d 1012 - Jones v. State · 533 So. 2d 270 - Swafford v. State
  2. “In the evening of August 31, 1982, witnesses heard several rounds of gunfire in the vicinity of the Parole and Probation building in Miami. An investigation revealed the body of Bjorn Thomas Svenson, a parole supervisor, in the parole building parking lot. Svenson was the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. There apparently were no eyewitnesses to the homicide.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Phillips v. State
  3. “committed in a cold, calculated, and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 533 So. 2d 270 - Swafford v. State

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.