610 So. 2d 1268 - Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Harris v. New York · Rodriguez v. New York · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · Refre v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Plasterers' Local Union No. 79
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that Long's capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or conform his actions to the law was substantially impaired, and (2) that the capital felony was committed while Long was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lack[ ] the cognitive volitional and moral capacity to act with the degree of culpability associated with the imposition of a sentence of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate steps [Long] took to accomplish his nefarious scheme of seeking out, abducting, sexually battering and then killing [the victim],”
1 later decision 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.