State v. Mestas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Trotter v. State (1990), 552 So. 2d 1107 - State v. Betancourt (1989)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 482 So. 2d 311 - Florida Bar Re: Rules of Criminal Procedure · 461 So. 2d 1003 - Davis v. State · Mestas v. State · 460 So. 2d 551 - Louzon 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a harsh and more severe alternative to ordinary probation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not an alternative sanction from the recommended range of any nonstate prison sanction unless”
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.