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619 So. 2d 285 - Sochor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 87 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000), Sochor v. State (2004)

2 federal appellate · 87 state decisions

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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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Booth v. Maryland

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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[f]ailure to give an instruction unnecessary to prove an essential element of the crime charged is not fundamental error.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 708 So. 2d 626 - Muteei v. State · 837 So. 2d 429 - Alfaro v. State
  2. “Evidence from which premeditation may be inferred includes such matters as the nature of the weapon used, the presence or absence of adequate provocation, previous difficulties between the parties, the manner in which the homicide was committed, and the nature and manner of the wounds inflicted.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Morrison v. State · Johnson v. State
  3. “Florida's standard jury instructions fully advise the jury of the importance of its role and do not violate Caldwell .”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 775 So. 2d 909 - Arbelaez v. State · 893 So. 2d 1278 - Everett v. State

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.