589 So. 2d 403 - Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2013
10 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 Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Johnson v. Florida · 576 So. 2d 281 - State v. Williams · 461 So. 2d 109 - Ruffin v. Wainwright · 545 So. 2d 851 - Franklin 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a person begins serving a lawfully imposed sentence, he may not thereafter be resentenced for an increased term of incarceration. Donald v. State, 562 So.2d 792 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990), rev. denied, 576 So.2d 291 (Fla. 1991). In Royal v. State, 389 So.2d 696 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1980), the Second District held that where the original five year sentence for a defendant convicted of third degree murder was a legal sentence, the trial court erred in resentencing defendant to 15 years. See also Wilhelm v. State, 543 So.2d 434 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1989) (motion to correct illegal sentences, made approximately one year after sentencing, did not give trial court authority to modify legal sentences that had been rendered on other counts); McKinley v. State, 519 So.2d 1154 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988) (resentencing defendant for both attempted murder and forgery, upon remand from appeal of attempted murder sentence, was error in that forgery conviction was unaffected by appeal); Kelly v. State, 508 So.2d 788 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987): holding limited in part by Franklin v. State, 526 So.2d 159 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988), approved, 545 So.2d 851 (Fla. 1989) (double jeopardy was violated by trial court's resentencing of defendant on remand as to count that was unaffected by prior appeal).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State · King v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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