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607 So. 2d 1184 - Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

108
cited by 108 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

108 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995), Jackson v. State (1996)

108 state decisions

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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 Solem v. Helm · King v. Lynaugh · Wrenn v. Benson · 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State · 440 So. 2d 318 - Mason 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “grossly disproportionate to the crime committed.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cook v. State · Morgan v. State
  2. “(1) The gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty; (2) Comparison of the sentence with sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (3) Comparison of sentences imposed in other jurisdictions for commission of the same crime with the sentence imposed in this case.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Towner v. State · Cook v. State
  3. “a guilty plea has been accepted and a suspended sentence has been imposed, the court cannot later impose a period of incarceration exceeding the original suspended sentence.... [t]o do so would expose the defendant to double jeopardy.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Riddle v. State · Porter 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.