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← 488 So. 2d 632 - Mitchell v. State

488 So. 2d 632 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 436 So. 2d 93 - Combs v. State · State v. Bussey · 428 So. 2d 327 - Sherman v. E.V. Smith Co. · 439 So. 2d 306 - Puzzo v. State · 374 So. 2d 1381 - State v. Stewart

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.

  1. “It is unlawful for any person to agree, consent, or in any manner offer to unlawfully sell to any person a controlled substance named or described in s. 893.03 and then sell to such person any other substance in lieu of such controlled substance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “h[e]ld that because the sale was not completed, there being an absence of payment by the officer to the defendant, an essential element of the crime was lacking.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[W]e believe there was no intent by the [Supreme C]ourt [of Florida in State v. Bussey, supra ] to change the plain meaning of the statute.”
    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.