607 So. 2d 404 - Preston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 718 So. 2d 159 - Hawk v. State (1998), 680 So. 2d 413 - Bonifay v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 79 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 Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Proffitt v. Florida · Spaziano v. Florida · Bullington v. Missouri · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ear and emotional strain may be considered as contributing to the heinous nature of the murder, even where the victim's death was almost instantaneous.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rimmer v. State · Farina v. State“forced the victim to drive to a remote location, made her walk at knifepoint through a dark field, forced her to disrobe, and then inflicted a wound certain to be fatal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the State must show that the sole or dominant motive for the murder[s] was the elimination of ... witness[es].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.