Windham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Smith v. State (1998), 835 So. 2d 14 - Hawthorne v. State (2003)
49 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State · 514 So. 2d 295 - Faraga 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner ... in the following cases: (b) When done in the commission of any act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved heart, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual."”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t has long been the case law of this state that malice aforethought, premeditated design, and deliberate design all mean the same thing.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]epraved heart murder requires a higher degree of recklessness from which malice or deliberate design might be implied.”
5 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.