Bass v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably State v. Callaway (1995), 598 So. 2d 1063 - Smith v. State (1992)
29 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 412 So. 2d 461 - Swartz v. Swartz · 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State · 500 So. 2d 594 - Dowdell v. State · 478 So. 2d 461 - Bass 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it would be manifestly unfair for prisoners such as Bass, who received consecutive minimum mandatory sentences prior to Palmer , to be treated differently from those who had the good fortune of being sentenced for similar conduct after that decision was rendered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the allegations of Bass' petition are correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young 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.