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1992

Citation profile

132
cited by 132 later decisions
3
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

129 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Ortiz (1997), 648 So. 2d 85 - Jackson v. State (1994)

129 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Enmund v. Florida · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Proffitt v. Florida

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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “similar but separate episodes, separated in time which are `connected' only by similar circumstances and the accused's alleged guilt in both or all instances.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. KERVEN CHARLES v. STATE OF FLORIDA · 826 So. 2d 916 - Smithers v. State
  2. “(a) Joinder of Offenses. Two or more offenses that are triable in the same court may be charged in the same indictment or information in a separate count for each offense, when the offenses ... are based on the same act or transaction or on 2 or more connected acts or transactions.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Smith v. State · Rolling v. State
  3. “necessary to achieve a fair determination of the defendant's guilt or innocence of each offense.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Williams v. State · 622 So. 2d 991 - Ellis 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.