Knight v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Ring v. Arizona (2002), Baze v. Rees (2008)
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Barber v. Tennessee · State v. Moore · 721 So. 2d 287 - State v. Thompson
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems appropriate to emphasize that the denial of these petitions for certiorari does not constitute a ruling on the merits.”
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.