608 So. 2d 966 - State v. Bernard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Alvarado v. State (1995), 684 So. 2d 368 - State v. Seals (1996)
45 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 Payne v. Tennessee · Booth v. Maryland · Dawson v. Delaware · South Carolina v. Gathers · 422 So. 2d 95 - State v. Sawyer
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some evidence of the murder victim's character and of the impact of the murder on the victim's survivors is admissible as relevant to the circumstances of the offense or to the character and propensities of the offender.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The sentencing hearing shall focus on the circumstances of the offense, the character and propensities of the offender, and the impact that the death of the victim has had on family members.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Tilley · State v. Anderson“a limited amount of general evidence providing identity to the victim and a limited amount of general evidence demonstrating harm to the victim's survivors”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.