552 So. 2d 914 - Rojas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 39 So. 3d 252 - State v. Montgomery (2010), 573 So. 2d 306 - State v. Smith (1990)
1 federal appellate · 62 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 Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt · 365 So. 2d 701 - Castor v. State · Grant v. State · 172 So. 2d 824 - Hedges 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As in Spaziano . . ., the total omission of any reference to justifiable or excusable homicide in the definition of manslaughter was fatal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State · Jones v. State“JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE § 782.02, Fla. Stat. The killing of a human being is justifiable homicide and lawful if necessarily done while resisting an attempt to murder or commit a felony upon the defendant, or to commit a felony in any dwelling house in which the defendant was at the time of the killing. EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE § 782.03, Fla. Stat. The killing of a human being is excusable, and therefore lawful, under any one of the following three circumstances: 1. When the killing is committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution and without any unlawful intent, or 2. When the killing occurs by accident and misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or 3. When the killing is committed by accident and misfortune resulting from sudden combat, if a dangerous weapon is not used and the killing is not done in a cruel and unusual manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE The killing of a human being is excusable and therefore lawful, under any one of the following three circumstances: 1. When the killing is committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution and without any unlawful intent, or 2. When the killing occurs by accident or misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or 3. When the killing is committed by accident and misfortune resulting from a sudden combat, if a dangerous weapon is not used and the killing is not done in a cruel or unusual manner. "Dangerous weapon" is any weapon that, taking into account the manner in which it is used, is likely to produce death or great bodily harm.”
1 later decision 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.