Spicer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2015
16 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 · State v. Jackson · 461 So. 2d 277 - Dominguez 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wearing mask while committing offense; enhanced penalties " (emphasis added), requires that the penalty be increased rather than the offense reclassified. Nowhere in the statute does the legislature make reference to reclassifying this conduct as a distinct, substantive offense. The statute speaks only to an increase in the penalty. As the Second District Court of Appeal correctly stated in Spicer , "[i]f the legislature had intended section 775.0845 to reclassify offenses, it would have so stated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]enal statutes must be construed in terms of their literal meaning . . . . [I]f the legislature had intended section 775.0845 [Florida Statutes (1989)] to reclassify offenses, it would have so stated . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be punishable as if it were a felony of the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.