Byrd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2001
9 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 476 So. 2d 671 - Marquez v. State · 492 So. 2d 1308 - Williams v. State · 468 So. 2d 276 - Von Carter v. State · 466 So. 2d 278 - Knowlton v. State · 489 So. 2d 176 - Stewart 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either advanced age alone, ... nor the victim's helplessness or vulnerability to criminal activity, ... are sufficient as clear and convincing reasons for an upward departure from the guidelines sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither advanced age alone, nor the victim's helplessness or vulnerability to criminal activity are sufficient as clear and convincing reasons for upward departure from the sentencing guidelines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.