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555 So. 2d 355 - King v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), Bolender v. Singletary (1994)

33 state decisions

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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 Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi · McCleskey v. Kemp · California v. Ramos · Hitchcock v. Dugger

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a mitigating circumstance in one proceeding is not an `ultimate fact' that collateral estoppel or the law of the case would preclude being rejected on resentencing.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 619 So. 2d 261 - Thompson v. State · 607 So. 2d 404 - Preston v. State
  2. “completely new proceeding, separate and distinct, from his first sentencing. A trial court is not obligated to find mitigating circumstances... .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 619 So. 2d 261 - Thompson v. State · 705 So. 2d 1320 - Phillips v. State
  3. “any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 760 So. 2d 903 - Way v. State · 572 So. 2d 1336 - Nixon 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.