Kramer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 803 So. 2d 598 - Connor v. State (2001), 668 So. 2d 954 - Terry v. State (1996)
56 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, Inc. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our law reserves the death penalty only for the most aggravated and least mitigated murders.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he evidence in its worst light suggests nothing more than a spontaneous fight, occurring for no discernible reason, between a disturbed alcoholic and a man who was legally drunk”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the existence and number of aggravating or mitigating factors do not in themselves prohibit or require a finding that death is nonproportional, we nevertheless are required to weigh the nature and quality of those factors as compared with other similar reported death appeals.”
2 later decisions 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.