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← 566 SO2D 37 - Arnold v. State

Arnold v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
1
states following
May 2005
most recently cited

53 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 383 So. 2d 219 - Eutsey v. State · 557 So. 2d 899 - Caracciolo v. State · 559 So. 2d 289 - Roberts v. State · 544 So. 2d 1144 - Wilhelm 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “analogous to a judge's discretion to depart downward based on valid reasons in cases governed by the sentencing guidelines.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The Court has considered and finds that while he would qualify as a violent career felony offender, that the interest of justice do not require, nor is it necessary for the protection of the public, that such enhanced sanctions be imposed, inasmuch as the Court finds that the habitual felony offender sanctions [are] an adequate safeguard and sanction to be imposed.”
    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.