495 So. 2d 197 - Dellinger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2018
15 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 Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · 402 So. 2d 606 - State v. Hawkins · 287 So. 2d 73 - State v. Bryan · 394 So. 2d 544 - Marasa v. State · 227 So. 2d 334 - Hines 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ill-will, hatred, spite, or an evil intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that (1) a person of ordinary judgment would know is reasonably certain to kill or do serious bodily injury to another, (2) is done from ill will, hatred, spite, or an evil intent, and (3) is of such a nature that the act itself indicates an indifference to human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“pointed a rifle at his wife without knowing (and thus without caring) whether or not it was loaded, and then deliberately pulled the trigger, killing her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.