Sochor v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
174 federal appellate · 3 district · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 587 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), Jones v. United States (1999)
174 federal appellate · 3 district · 221 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Chapman v. State of California · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle
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 587 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlikely to disregard a theory flawed in law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Archer v. State · Kearse v. State“[o]nly one of the four cases [cited by the Florida court] contains language giving an explicit indication that the State Supreme Court had performed harmless error analysis. The other three simply do not, and the result is ambiguity.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. State · Payne v. Bell“creates the possibility ... of randomness,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flamer v. Delaware · Blue 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.