512 So. 2d 176 - Fead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Hardwick v. State (1988), 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Jones v. Howard · Wingo v. Wedding · Bottoson v. Florida · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there are valid mitigating factors discernible from the record upon which the jury could have based its recommendation an override may not be warranted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If any mitigating factors are present in the record, the trial judge must impose a life sentence in accordance with the [jury's] recommendation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“offense was typical of the crime of passion between lovers for which this Court has consistently held that the death penalty is unwarranted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.