539 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Azar’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Smith (2000), Polk v. Edwards (1993)
1 federal appellate · 45 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Feola · Schall v. Martin · Cobb v. Louisiana Board of Institutions
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walker · State v. Conway“so interrelated and connected with the constitutional parts that they cannot be separated without destroying the intention manifested”
9 later decisions 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.