Winters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably 520 So. 2d 582 - King v. State (1988), 523 So. 2d 574 - Sims v. State (1988)
31 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 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · 498 So. 2d 863 - Whitehead v. State · 395 So. 2d 540 - Wakulla County v. Davis · 361 So. 2d 140 - Oldham v. Rooks · 317 So. 2d 68 - State Ex Rel. Sch. Bd. of Martin Cty. v. Dept. of Ed.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“IS THE HABITUAL OFFENDER STATUTE STILL AN EFFECTIVE BASIS ON WHICH TO EXCEED THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM AS LONG AS THE SENTENCE IMPOSED DOES NOT EXCEED THE GUIDELINES RECOMMENDATION?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“remains viable for the purpose of extending the statutory maximum in a manner consistent with the guidelines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The central premise underlying Whitehead is that any conflict between the habitual offender statute and the sentencing guidelines must be resolved in favor of the guidelines and their policies. See [498 So.2d] at 865.”
1 later decision 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.