484 So. 2d 84 - Heston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 2000
3 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 143 So. 2d 817 - Goswick v. State · 232 So. 2d 25 - Bass v. State · McCray v. State · Goodwill Industries of South Florida, Inc. v. Northeastern Fire Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania · M. M. 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A deadly weapon is defined as one likely to produce death or great bodily injury. An unloaded gun has been deemed to be a deadly weapon as a matter of fact and as a matter of law. However, if the instrument used is not a gun, Florida courts apply an objective test and look only to the nature and actual use of the instrument even where fear on the part of the victim is an element of the crime. From an objective standpoint, appellant's use of the crossbow could not be characterized as an assault with a deadly weapon. Without arrows, the weapon as it was intended to be used could not have inflicted injury upon another. Therefore, the court should have granted appellant's motion for acquittal of aggravated assault.”
1 later decision 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.