495 So. 2d 893 - Heuring v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2002
8 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 American States Insurance v. Piasecki · 451 So. 2d 844 - State v. Hogan · 403 So. 2d 943 - Buford v. State · 381 So. 2d 1146 - Cotita v. State · Potts 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absence of similar conduct for an extensive period of time might suggest that the conduct is no longer characteristic of the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“IN A PROSECUTION FOR SEXUAL BATTERY UNDER SECTION 794.011(2), FLORIDA STATUTES (1977-1983), WHERE DEATH IS NOT A POSSIBLE PENALTY BECAUSE OF THE HOLDING IN BUFORD V. STATE, 403 So.2d 943 (FLA. 1981), MAY THE STATE PROCEED BY INFORMATION INSTEAD OF INDICTMENT?”
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.