522 So. 2d 802 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 619 So. 2d 285 - Sochor v. State (1993), 533 So. 2d 744 - Bryan v. State (1988)
46 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Rodriguez v. New York · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Andrijevic v. Kelleran
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.
“the victims could no longer read books, visit their families, or see the sun rise in the morning as Jackson would be able to do if sentenced only to life in prison”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fairly susceptible of being interpreted by the jury as a comment on the defendant's exercise of his right to remain silent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“been previously convicted of a felony involving the use or threat of use of a firearm, the crimes of Armed Robbery, Assault, Attempted Robbery, and Battery with a Deadly Weapon are felonies involving the use or threat of use of violence to another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes 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.