608 So. 2d 679 - State v. Trahan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2014
5 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 404 So. 2d 1205 - State v. Campbell · 414 So. 2d 1210 - State v. Howard
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 328. Effect upon sentence * * * * * * B. No sentence shall be declared unlawful, inadequate, or excessive solely due to the failure of the court to impose a sentence in conformity with the sentencing guidelines of the commission. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly mandates that the trial judge consider the sentencing guidelines in determining the appropriate sentence to impose when a defendant has been convicted of a felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bennett“the court shall ... state for the record the reasons for the departure which shall specify the mitigating or aggravating circumstances, and the factual basis therefor,”
1 later decision 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.