525 So. 2d 853 - Combs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Dugger v. Adams (1989), 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 48 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 Strickland v. Washington · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“notwithstanding the recommendation of a majority of the jury,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“render[s] an advisory sentence to the court”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“although the final responsibility for sentencing is with the judge ... it should not act hastily or without due regard to the gravity of the proceedings, that it should carefully weigh, sift, and consider evidence of mitigation and statutory aggravation, realizing that human life is at stake, and bring to bear its best judgment in reaching the advisory sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bottoson v. Moore · Burns 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.