545 So. 2d 392 - Madrigal v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

cited by 27 later decisions

states following

October 2014

most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 634 So. 2d 607 - Novaton v. State (1994), 697 So. 2d 944 - State v. Frazier (1997)

27 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 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · Florida Bar re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar · C. D. W. v. State · 395 So. 2d 514 - State v. Benitez · 418 So. 2d 1277 - Chang 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[T]he prosecutor had the right, and the binding duty if Madrigal complied, to recommend a sentence less than that provided by section 893.135(1)(b)(2)), Florida Statutes (1985).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 596 So. 2d 711 - Gonzalez v. State · 609 So. 2d 112 - Gartrell v. State
“[Ojur courts have held that sentences and other judicial actions which deviate from statutory and even constitutional requirements to the potential benefit of the defendant and to which he agreed may not be the subject of a successful challenge brought only after he has failed to carry any burden imposed upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 701 So. 2d 1214 - McMillan v. State
“[s]he accepted the benefits of probation and had one of the counts against her dropped as part of the plea negotiations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 610 So. 2d 726 - Novaton v. State

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.