State v. Dorthey’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1,597 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,602 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 709 So. 2d 672 - State v. Johnson (1998), 805 So. 2d 166 - State v. Weaver (2002)
1,597 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 Parke v. Raley · State v. Sepulvado · 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato · State v. Prestridge · State v. Barras
Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 419 So. 2d 475 - State v. Lanclos · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones
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 1,602 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment”
142 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kingston · State v. Smart“the purposeful imposition of pain and suffering”
91 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell · State v. Kingston“(1) Any person who, after having been convicted within this state of a felony ... thereafter commits any subsequent felony within this state, upon conviction of said felony, shall be punished as follows: [[Image here]] (b) If the third felony is such that upon a first conviction, the offender would be punishable by imprisonment for any term less than his natural life then: (1) The person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a determinate term not less than two-thirds of the longest possible sentence for the conviction and not more than twice the longest possible sentence prescribed for a first conviction ....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bush · State v. Wilson
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.