532 So. 2d 9 - Heath v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 547 So. 2d 613 - State v. Smith (1989), 750 So. 2d 6 - Bates v. State (1999)
34 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 Weaver v. Graham · Miller v. Florida · 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · Hall v. State · 514 So. 2d 1079 - Booker 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is firmly established law that the statutes in effect at the time of commission of a crime control as to the offenses for which the perpetrator can be convicted, as well as the punishments which may be imposed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the interpretation by the highest court of this state, as found in the Carawan and Hall decisions, of the criminal statute existing at the time of the offenses committed here, govern as to the permissible criminal punishments which may be imposed upon appellant, rather than the subsequently adopted legislation having the effect of increasing those punishments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.