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509 So. 2d 1269 - Bulger v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 1989
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 476 So. 2d 158 - Albritton v. State · 489 So. 2d 25 - Scurry v. State · 480 So. 2d 718 - Scutti v. DANIEL E. ADACHE & ASSOC. · 489 So. 2d 754 - Davis v. State · 498 So. 2d 647 - Mathis 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The defendant’s crime posed an extreme risk to the physical safety of other citizens. The defendant fired the shotgun on a public highway, raising the prospect of innocent bystanders being wounded or causing a traffic accident which might have involved innocent third parties. Id. at 1270 .”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “impliedly negated by the absence of a first-degree murder conviction. This rationale is applicable even where the second-degree murder conviction is the result of a plea, as in the instant case.”
    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.