594 So. 2d 802 - Todd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2015
1 federal appellate · 6 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 438 So. 2d 14 - Stahl v. Metropolitan Dade County · Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co. · 554 So. 2d 1165 - Pisano v. State · Commonwealth v. Mink · 97 So. 2d 277 - Tipton 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the petty theft did trigger a series of events that concluded in the death of [the victim] and was, in that sense, a "cause" of the death, the petty theft did not encompass the kind of direct, foreseeable risk of physical harm that would support a conviction of manslaughter. The relationship between the unlawful act committed (petty theft) and the result effected (death by heart attack during pursuit in an automobile) does not meet the test of causation historically or currently required in Florida for conviction of manslaughter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a closer relationship between the result effected and that intended or hazarded is required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the act in its surroundings at the time of its commission.”
1 later decision 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.