604 So. 2d 1107 - Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably 714 So. 2d 411 - Urbin v. State (1998), 648 So. 2d 85 - Jackson v. State (1994)
42 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt · Estate of Johnson v. Engle
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the crime must be both conscienceless or pitiless and unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appropriate in a `conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The opinion in Douglas ... rested on our conclusion that the killing arose from violent emotions brought on by the defendant's hatred and jealousy associated with the love triangle. In other words, the murder in Douglas was a classic crime of heated passion. It was not "cold" even though it may have appeared to be calculated. There was no deliberate plan formed through calm and cool reflection, only mad acts prompted by wild emotion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence v. State · Blanco v. State
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.