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630 So. 2d 521 - Hale v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

411
cited by 411 later decisions
2
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

408 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 411 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Callaway (1995), 848 So. 2d 287 - State v. McBride (2003)

408 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 Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Rummel v. Estelle · 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · 383 So. 2d 219 - Eutsey 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 411 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We find nothing in the language of the habitual offender statute which suggests that the legislature also intended that, once the sentences from multiple crimes committed during a single criminal episode have been enhanced through the habitual offender statutes, the total penalty should then be further increased by ordering that the sentences run consecutively.”
    23 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pace v. State · Hill v. State
  2. “[t]he length of the sentence actually imposed is generally said to be a matter of legislative prerogative”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 707 So. 2d 827 - Wagner v. State · 823 So. 2d 757 - Hall v. State
  3. “It is not necessary to delineate the precise contours of the Florida guarantee against cruel or unusual punishment ... because Hale's sentence is clearly not disproportionate.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 902 So. 2d 746 - Adaway v. State · 943 So. 2d 919 - Paey 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.