State v. Weiland’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 796 So. 2d 649 - State v. Neal (2001), 775 So. 2d 1022 - State v. Casey (2000)
47 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Cronic · Washington v. Texas
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) When the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm upon more than one person; or * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Tassin“the penalty imposed here appears disproportionate to that imposed in similar cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A. First degree murder is the killing of a human being:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Tassin
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.