618 So. 2d 116 - Stromas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 912 So. 2d 919 - Tate v. State (2005), 794 So. 2d 181 - Williams v. State (2001)
1 federal appellate · 79 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Pointer v. Texas · Solem v. Helm · 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State · 607 So. 2d 1184 - Wallace 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]rug offenses are very serious, and the public has expressed grave concern with the drug problem. The legislature has responded in kind with stiff penalties for drug offenders. It is the legislature's prerogative, and not this Court's, to set the length of sentences.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mosley v. State · Hudson v. State“(1) The gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty; (2) Comparison of the sentence with sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (3) Comparison of sentences imposed in other jurisdictions for commission of the same crime with the sentence imposed in this case.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tompkins v. State · Wade v. State“sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.”
5 later decisions 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.