500 So. 2d 134 - Keys v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 509 So. 2d 281 - State v. Rousseau (1987), 504 So. 2d 392 - Williams v. State (1987)
107 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 476 So. 2d 158 - Albritton v. State · 475 So. 2d 1218 - Hendrix v. State · 488 So. 2d 523 - State v. Mischler · 497 So. 2d 736 - Sharp v. State · 473 So. 2d 800 - Keys 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be credible and proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Even if the reason is one which in the abstract may be appropriate for departure, the facts of the particular case must establish the reason beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We find that this escalation from crimes against property to violent crimes against persons is a clear and convincing reason for departure... ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“danger to the community, is not a clear and convincing reason for departure in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochran v. State
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.