580 So. 2d 595 - Sochor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Sochor v. Florida (1992), Sochor v. State (2004)
1 federal appellate · 22 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Booth v. Maryland · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Cryts v. French
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court carefully weighed the aggravating factors against the lack of any mitigating factors and concluded that death was warranted. Even after removing the aggravating factor of cold, calculated, and premeditated there still remain three aggravating factors to be weighed against no mitigating circumstances. Striking one aggravating factor when there are no mitigating circumstances does not necessarily require resentencing. Robinson v. State, 574 So.2d 108 (Fla.1991); Holton v. State, 573 So.2d 284 (Fla.1990); James v. State, 453 So.2d 786 (Fla.), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1098 [105 S.Ct. 608, 83 L.Ed.2d 717] . . . (1984); Francois v. State, 407 So.2d 885 (Fla.1981), cert. denied, 458 U.S. 1122 [102 S.Ct. 3511, 73 L.Ed.2d 1384] . . . (1982).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sochor v. Florida“Sochor's next claim, regarding alleged errors in the penalty jury instructions, likewise must fail. None of the complained-of jury instructions were objected to at trial, and, thus, they are not preserved for appeal. Vaught v. State, 410 So.2d 147 (Fla.1982). In any event, Sochor's claims here have no merit. . . . . We reject without discussion Sochor's . . . claims . . . that the instructions as to the aggravating factors of heinous, atrocious, or cruel and cold, calculated, and premeditated were improper. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sochor v. Florida“can be inferred that `strangulation, when perpetrated upon a conscious victim, involves foreknowledge of death, extreme anxiety and fear, and that this method of killing is one to which the factor of heinousness is applicable.'”
1 later decision 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.