State v. Lighten’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 865 So. 2d 284 - State v. Hampton (2004), State v. Mock (1992)
77 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 Angrist v. United States · 434 So. 2d 452 - State v. Hammonds · 431 So. 2d 854 - State v. Cunningham · 445 So. 2d 1171 - State v. Williams · State v. Hammonds
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant is convicted of two or more offenses based on the same act or transaction, or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the terms of imprisonment shall be served concurrently unless the court expressly directs that some or all be served consecutively.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Because the function of the consecutive sentence should be similar to the sentence imposed on habitual or dangerous offenders, sentences arising from a single course of conduct should be concurrent rather than consecutive, absent a showing that the offender poses an unusual risk to the safety of the public." (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions 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.