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Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1876

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
9
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 49 So. 3d 66 - Newell v. State (2010), Cook v. State (1985)

39 state decisions

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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.

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We do not think that it [the statute] was intended to apply to cases of mutual combat, unconnected with the commission or attempt to commit some other unlawful act by the party slain.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Wells v. State
  2. “[t]he attitude and demonstrations of the deceased became a vital point in the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 660 So. 2d 1298 - Craig v. State
  3. “the position and action of Bailey at the moment of the firing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 660 So. 2d 1298 - Craig v. State

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.