513 So. 2d 386 - State v. Ryans’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 805 So. 2d 166 - State v. Weaver (2002), State v. Smith (2000)
45 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 450 So. 2d 724 - State v. Williams
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he penalties provided by the legislature reflect the degree to which the criminal conduct is an affront to society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires a close similarity or proportionality in penalties solely because both crimes deal with sexual immorality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baxley · State v. Smith“disproportionate to the severity of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.