504 So. 2d 392 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Barfield v. State (1992), 565 So. 2d 1288 - Livingston v. State (1988)
101 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 475 So. 2d 1218 - Hendrix v. State · 489 So. 2d 25 - Scurry v. State · 500 So. 2d 134 - Keys v. State · 492 So. 2d 1308 - Williams v. State · 469 So. 2d 128 - Weems 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“continuing and persistent pattern of criminal activity”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“substantially more than a mere reference to the defendant's prior criminal record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. The Defendant as a juvenile was committed to the Department of HRS for the offense of Arson dated January 11, 1977. He was committed also in Case No. 76-466 for Arson and Burglary of an Occupied Dwelling, and again committed for Shoplifting dated August 18, 1978. At age eighteen (18) years, the Defendant was sentenced to Department of Corrections for three (3) years for Burglary of a Structure dated February 19, 1979 and paroled September 16, 1980. He was charged with violation of his parole on March 3, 1981 having only been out of prison for some six months. On July 10, 1981 the Defendant was again sentenced to the Department of Corrections on the offense of Attempted Burglary for five (5) years. On December 10, 1983 he was discharged as to that sentence and after only approximately ten (10) months committed the instant offense on October 6, 1984.”
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.