State v. Weller’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 634 So. 2d 153 - Sirmons v. State (1994), 697 So. 2d 84 - Standard Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases (1997)
1 federal appellate · 62 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 Blockburger v. United States · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · United States v. American College of Physicians · Allied Corp. v. District 17, United Mine Workers · Johnson v. Florida
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]efore the trial court can impose sentence on a defendant when enhancements of this type are authorized, the trial court must inform the jury that the minimum mandatory punishment for the offense is greater depending on the quantity of the substance involved. The jury then must determine from the evidence adduced at trial the quantity of contraband involved in the commission of the offense, in effect advising the court as to the appropriate minimum penalty.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Knight v. State · Limose v. State“In other words, on the face of the statutes, the two offenses appear to be separate, but the facts alleged in the accusatory pleadings are such that the lesser offense cannot help but be perpetrated once the greater offense has been.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a. [The quantity of the substance involved was in excess of 28 grams but less than 200 grams.] b. [The quantity of the substance involved was 200 grams or more but less than 400 grams.] c. [The quantity of the substance involved was 400 grams or more but less than 150 kilograms.] d. [The quantity of the substance involved was 150 kilograms or more but less than 300 kilograms.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.