542 So. 2d 222 - Blanks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 835 So. 2d 14 - Hawthorne v. State (2003), 585 So. 2d 693 - Veal v. State (1991)
46 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 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State · 493 So. 2d 365 - Harveston v. State · 533 So. 2d 418 - Woodward v. State · Crenshaw 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although our law has never prescribed any particular ex ante time requirement, the essence of the required intent is that the accused must have had some appreciable time for reflection and consideration before pulling the trigger.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he killing of a human being, without malice, in the heat of passion, but in a cruel or unusual manner, or by the use of a dangerous weapon, without authority of § law, and not in necessary self-defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Brown v. State“Definitionally, we regard `malice aforethought' and `deliberate design' as synonymous.”
4 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.