500 So. 2d 501 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Miller v. Florida (1987), 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000)
1 federal appellate · 106 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 461 So. 2d 109 - Ruffin v. Wainwright · 480 So. 2d 223 - Monti v. State · 413 So. 2d 840 - Robbins v. State · Smith v. State · 471 So. 2d 201 - Williams 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant cannot by agreement confer on the court the authority to impose an illegal sentence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court cannot impose an illegal sentence pursuant to a plea bargain.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defendant did not appear for sentencing on July 20, 1984.”
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.