611 So. 2d 1228 - Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2017
17 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any sentence imposed outside the range recommended by the guidelines must be explained in writing by the trial court judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is improper to double the consideration of the aggravating circumstances of robbery and pecuniary gain when both aggravating circumstances referred 'to the same aspect of the defendant's crime'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n intent to avoid arrest is not present, at least when the victim is not a law enforcement officer, unless it is clearly shown that the dominant or only motive for the murder was the elimination of witnesses.”
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.