509 So. 2d 1078 - State v. Hightower’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 848 So. 2d 1278 - Gisi v. State (2003), 957 So. 2d 595 - Williams v. State (2007)
52 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 Burks v. United States · Tibbs v. Florida · Greene v. Massey · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · 403 So. 2d 956 - Ray 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s now worded, section 800.04 contemplates that if sexual activity takes place with a person under sixteen years of age which does not constitute the crime of sexual battery, the conduct is deemed to be lewd and lascivious.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. State · Welsh v. State“[a]ny person who ... commits an act defined as sexual battery under s. 794.011(1)(h) upon a child under the age of 16 years ... without committing the crime of sexual battery is guilty of a felony of the second degree [lewd and lascivious conduct.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Robinson v. State · Hausen v. State“(1) Handles, fondles, or assaults any child under the age of 16 years in a lewd, lascivious, or indecent manner; (2) Commits actual or simulated sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual bestiality, masturbation, sadomasochistic abuse, actual lewd exhibition of the genitals, or any act or conduct which simulates that sexual battery is being or will be committed upon any child under the age of 16 years or forces or entices the child to commit any such act; (3) Commits an act defined as sexual battery under s. 794.011(1)(h) upon any child under the age of 16 years; or (4) Knowingly commits any lewd or lascivious act in the presence of any child under the age of 16 years, without committing the crime of sexual battery, commits a felony of the second degree....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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