Burdick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Cotton (2000), 610 So. 2d 435 - Lamont v. State (1992)
173 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 537 So. 2d 982 - Smith v. State · 530 So. 2d 51 - State v. Brown · Pearson & Maluso, M.D., P.A. v. Bott · Johnson v. State · 568 So. 2d 511 - Power 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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sentencing under sections 775.084(4)(a)(1) and 775.084(4)(b)(1) is permissive not mandatory.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. In the case of a life felony, or a felony of the first degree, for life, and such offender shall not be eligible for release for 15 years. 2. In the case of a felony of the second degree, for a term of years not exceeding 30, and such offender shall not be eligible for release for 10 years. 3. In the case of a felony of the third degree, for a term of years not exceeding 10, and such offender shall not be eligible for release for 5 years.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Is a first-degree felony punishable by a term of years not exceeding life imprisonment subject to an enhanced sentence of life imprisonment pursuant to the provisions of the habitual felony offender statute [section 775.084, Florida Statutes (1989) ]?”
3 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.