Jeffries v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2013
1 federal appellate · 13 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 576 So. 2d 1310 - Perkins v. State · 584 So. 2d 1107 - Smith v. State · Jeffries v. State
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) As used in this act: (a) “Habitual felony offender” means a defendant for whom the court may impose an extended term of imprisonment, as provided in paragraph (4)(a), if it finds that: 1. The defendant has previously been convicted of any combination of two or more felonies in this state or other qualified offenses. 2. The felony for which the defendant is to be sentenced was committed: a. While the defendant was serving a prison sentence or other sentence, or court-ordered or lawfully imposed supervision that is imposed as a result of a prior conviction for a felony or other qualified offense; or b. Within 5 years of the date of the conviction of the defendant’s last prior felony or other qualified offense, or within 5 years of the defendant’s release from a prison sentence, probation, community control, control release, conditional release, parole or court-ordered or lawfully imposed supervision or other sentence that is imposed as a result of a prior conviction for a felony or other qualified offense, whichever is later.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cedeno v. State · Holloway v. State“criminal statutes must be strictly construed according to their letter and ... this rule emanates from article I, section 9 and article II, section 3 of the Florida Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Within" means "during the time of." Black's Law Dictionary 1602 (6th ed.1991). In common usage, "within" simply is not synonymous with "no later than." The term "within" implies a measurement fixed both at its beginning and its end, whereas "no later than" implies only a fixed end.”
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.