632 So. 2d 1094 - Mesa v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2019
15 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 457 So. 2d 1385 - State v. Overfelt · 520 So. 2d 260 - DuBoise v. State · 630 So. 2d 1097 - City of Melbourne v. Puma · 434 So. 2d 945 - Overfelt v. State · 623 So. 2d 551 - Gibbs 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question ... becomes whether the information ... is so fundamentally defective that it wholly fails to state the crime ... so that a judgment of conviction and sentence thereon cannot stand, even though no motion to dismiss was filed in the case. ... We have not overlooked a line of Florida cases which have consistently set aside a judgment of conviction ... where the indictment or information failed to allege possession of a firearm as an essential element of the charged crime. In these cases, however, the indictment or information also failed to reference [the correct statute] as a statute which the defendant was charged with violating, and, as a consequence, the indictment or information wholly failed to state a crime under the statute and no judgment of conviction or sentence could be imposed under said statute. Because the information in the instant case referenced [the correct statute] as one of the statutes the defendant was charged with violating, these cases do not control our decision today. Moreover, it is undisputed that the jury expressly found the defendant guilty of possessing a firearm based on substantial competent evidence adduced below, so that all the requirements for invoking [the correct statute] were met in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the charging document references the specific section of the criminal code which the defendant is charged with violating”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be alleged in the indictment or information,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.