492 So. 2d 1308 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Miller v. Florida (1987), 515 So. 2d 748 - Shull v. Dugger (1987)
1 federal appellate · 94 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 475 So. 2d 1218 - Hendrix v. State · 488 So. 2d 523 - State v. Mischler · In re Rules of Criminal Procedure · 476 So. 2d 161 - State v. Young · 478 So. 2d 47 - Todd 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial judge may not substitute his own opinion for that of the Sentencing Guideline Commission simply because he does not agree with the presumptive sentence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“the fact that [the defendant] `has engaged in a violent pattern of conduct which indicates a serious danger to society' is not a clear and convincing reason for departure under the facts of this case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial judge may not depart from the guidelines based on a factor which has already been weighed in arriving at a presumptive sentence.”
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.