483 So. 2d 423 - State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably 538 So. 2d 116 - Brown v. State (1989), 532 So. 2d 743 - Viera v. State (1988)
33 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 476 So. 2d 158 - Albritton v. State · Roberts v. Louisiana · 476 So. 2d 161 - State v. Young · 466 So. 2d 1144 - Baker v. State · 455 So. 2d 551 - Young 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[t]here is a special interest in affording protection to . . . public servants who. regularly must risk their lives in order to guard the safety of other persons and property’”. Roberts v Louisiana, 431 U.S. 633, 636 [ 97 S. Ct. 1993, 1995 , 52 L.Ed.2d 637 ] (1977). Since, as can be seen, the protection of police officers is a valid societal objective which justifies legislation making police officers a special class of crime victims, we see no reason why a court may not validly pronounce as a reason for departing from sentencing guidelines that a defendant who chooses to make a police officer acting in the line of duty the victim of his crime is to be treated differently than a defendant who commits the same crime upon an ordinary citizen. State v Baker, supra, 483 So.2d at 424 .”
2 later decisions 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.