508 So. 2d 1 - Nibert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Trotter v. State (1990), Finney v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Lockhart v. McCree · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Calder v. United States · Rosene v. United States · Sireci v. Florida
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cold-blooded intent to kill that is more contemplative, more methodical, more controlled than that necessary to sustain a conviction for first-degree murder,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“so long as the record reflects that the trial judge made the requisite findings at the sentencing hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is within the trial judge's discretion to determine whether sufficient evidence exists of a particular mitigating circumstance and, if so, the weight to be given it.”). 32 . Long after Mr. Jennings was sentenced, the Florida Supreme Court imposed a requirement that”
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.