545 So. 2d 838 - Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
199 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 622 So. 2d 941 - Tripp v. State (1993), Ree v. State (1990)
199 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 Barrett v. United States · 475 So. 2d 1218 - Hendrix v. State · 500 So. 2d 501 - Williams v. State · 500 So. 2d 526 - State v. Pentaude · 313 So. 2d 758 - Berry v. Castro Farms
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violation of probation is not itself an independent offense punishable at law in Florida.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accordingly, [5] we hold that factors related to violation of probation or community control cannot be used as grounds for departure. To the extent that this conflicts with our earlier ruling in Pentaude , we recede from our decision there. Lambert, 545 So.2d at 842 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If new offenses constituting a probation violation are to be used as grounds for departure when sentencing for the original offense, prior conviction on the new offenses is required”
3 later decisions 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.