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1991

Citation profile

153
cited by 153 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
16
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

144 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 153 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995)

144 state decisions — followed in 16 states

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Edwards v. Arizona · Witherspoon v. Illinois

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

  1. “When life is at stake, a jury cannot be allowed the opportunity to doubly weigh the commission of the underlying felony and the motive behind the underlying felony as separate aggravators.”
    15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Smith v. State · Blue v. State
  2. “[N]ot to be swayed by mere sentiment, conjecture, sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion or public feeling.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Blue v. State · 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State
  3. “This Court will reverse a trial court's finding that a confession is admissible only when an incorrect legal standard was applied, manifest error was committed, or the decision is contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Carr v. State · 951 So. 2d 627 - Mooney 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.