Greenhalgh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2013
14 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 Ree v. State · 529 So. 2d 690 - Florida Bar v. Takiff · Reynolds v. State · Dunn v. State · 467 So. 2d 334 - Powlowski 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]henever a court sentencing a life felony opts for a term of years in lieu of a life sentence, that court is limited to a sentence no harsher than forty years. Ironically, no such limitation is posed with respect to first degree felonies punishable by life. It has been held elsewhere that 300 years is less than `life.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sentence that exceeds the maximum allowed by statute is fundamental error which can be raised at any time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. State“by a term of imprisonment for life or by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 40 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright 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.