520 So. 2d 123 - Windham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995), Carr v. State (1995)
51 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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 297 So. 2d 888 - Pittman v. State · Bangren v. State · Dalton v. State · 446 So. 2d 580 - Scott 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“always indicates full awareness of what one is doing, and generally implies careful and unhurried consideration of the consequences.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. State · Williams v. State“(1) The killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner shall be murder in the following cases: (a) When done with deliberate design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any human being....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“as charged in the indictment in this cause and as referred to in other instructions of the Court is a state of mind and does not have to exist in the mind of the slayer for any given length of time, and if the defendant, at the very moment of the fatal blow did so with the deliberate design to take the life of the deceased, Krystal D. King, then it was malice aforethought as if the deliberate design had existed in the mind of the defendant for minutes, hours, days, or weeks or even years. Vol. I, at 133. Holland contends that this instruction should not have been granted because it”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.