Byrd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2014
15 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 Miller v. Florida · 515 So. 2d 748 - Shull v. Dugger · Castle v. State · 371 So. 2d 1024 - McCreary v. State · 92 So. 2d 651 - Johnson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Vehicular homicide' is the killing of a human being by the operation of a motor vehicle by another in a reckless manner likely to cause the death of, or great bodily harm to, another. Vehicular homicide is a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defendant's record or lack of one is not a valid reason for departure because that factor is already taken into consideration in the guideline calculation.”
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.