604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State (1997), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)
182 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 Illinois v. Gates · Barker v. Wingo · Neil v. Biggers · United States v. Marion · Solem v. Helm
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Further, the general rule in this state is that a sentence cannot be disturbed on appeal so long as it does not exceed the maximum term allowed by statute.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sumrell v. State · Wells v. State“(a) gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty; (b) sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (c) sentences imposed for the commission of the same crime in different jurisdictions.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.”
6 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.