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497 So. 2d 1188 - State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
5
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2017

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions

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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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Roe v. Wade · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Boddie v. Connecticut · Wisconsin v. Yoder

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a person's constitutional rights terminate at death. If any rights exist, they belong to the decedent's next of kin.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jurado v. Popejoy Construction Co. · 778 So. 2d 978 - Crocker v. Pleasant
  2. “infinitesimally small intrusion which does not affect the decedent's appearance”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 778 So. 2d 978 - Crocker v. Pleasant · 727 So. 2d 1087 - Crocker v. Pleasant
  3. “no protectable liberty or property interest”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 778 So. 2d 978 - Crocker v. Pleasant · 727 So. 2d 1087 - Crocker v. Pleasant

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.