Tillman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 714 So. 2d 411 - Urbin v. State (1998), Bottoson v. Moore (2002)
76 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 Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona · Peer International Corp. v. Pausa Records, Inc. · Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona · 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State · 574 So. 2d 1059 - Nibert 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not a comparison between the number of aggravating and mitigating circumstances.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kramer v. State · Woods v. State“Unlike the federal Constitution, the Florida Constitution prohibits `cruel or unusual punishment.' Art. I, § 17, Fla. Const. This means that alternatives were intended.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The use of the word `or' indicates that alternatives were intended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.