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557 So. 2d 582 - Firkey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 2005
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Tibbs v. Florida · 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · Hice 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “concept of rape by specifying that sexual battery occurs upon”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Pate · 642 So. 2d 769 - Bowden v. State
  2. “occurs only if the victim's vagina is penetrated.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Pate · 642 So. 2d 769 - Bowden v. State
  3. “a musculomembrane tube which forms the passageway between the cervix uteri and the vulvae.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Pate · 642 So. 2d 769 - Bowden 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.