614 So. 2d 473 - Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 1986 - Hall v. Florida (2014), 722 So. 2d 177 - Donaldson v. State (1998)
1 federal appellate · 61 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Trop v. Dulles · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means extremely wicked or shockingly evil.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“define[d] the terms sufficiently to save both the instruction and the aggravator from vagueness challenges.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“buried him in the sand up to his neck to 'strengthen his legs,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.