484 So. 2d 568 - Echols v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably 739 So. 2d 568 - Ramirez v. State (1999), 608 So. 2d 784 - Fotopoulos v. State (1992)
1 federal appellate · 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 Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Janis · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it must be linked with some other characteristic of the defendant or the crime such as immaturity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“age is simply a fact, every murderer has one.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“We cannot determine whether the trial judge overlooked this fourth aggravating factor or was uncertain as to whether convictions for crimes committed concurrently with the capital crime could be used in aggravation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.