Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
October 2008
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 527 So. 2d 1380 - Florida Bar v. Mullins · 500 So. 2d 501 - Williams v. State · 592 So. 2d 678 - Rahming v. State · Reed v. State · Sterling 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the trial court opts for a term of years instead of a life sentence [for a life felony], it may not impose a sentence longer than forty years.”
1 later decision 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.