629 So. 2d 838 - Santos v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 760 So. 2d 903 - Way v. State (2000), 675 So. 2d 567 - Rose v. State (1996)
24 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 United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Perez v. Jones · Ward v. Sentry Title Co. · 571 So. 2d 415 - Campbell 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the Florida Constitution, both a binding decision and a binding precedential opinion are created to the extent that at least four members of the Court have joined in an opinion and decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“one of the weightiest mitigating factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“this mitigating factor must be found if a defendant had no significant history of criminal activity prior to the transaction in which the instant murder occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hess 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.