State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2003
7 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 515 So. 2d 227 - Phillips v. Dugger · State v. Samudio · 508 So. 2d 546 - Rosa v. State · 504 So. 2d 1252 - MacK 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by exceeding the mandatory minimum sentence. In Hall the majority made it clear that the minimum mandatory was included in and automatically imposed by the longer sentence, and that the minimum mandatory was imposed by virtue of the applicable statute whether or not the trial court checked the minimum mandatory box on the sentencing documents. The first three years of the four year sentence were the mandatory minimum, whether or not that characteristic of the sentence was noted on the sentencing form. Hall says that the minimum mandatory sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Department of Correction is releasing convicts from imprisonment before they have served the mandatory minimum sentence. That is probably surprising to some legislators and members of the public who thought 3 year mandatory minimum means the term of imprisonment was at least three years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 3 calendar years”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.