638 So. 2d 986 - Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2016
9 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 504 So. 2d 1270 - Anderson v. State · Blackmon 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he youthful offender sentencing statute itself expressly provides that the 2 I would also note that a defendant's maximum exposure is determined by the offenses adjudicated at the time of judgment rather than those charged in the information. - 15 - sentencing alternatives prescribed therein are [i]n lieu of other criminal penalties authorized by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he lower court is under no obligation to sentence [a defendant] under the Youthful Offender Act unless the lower court believes such a sentence would be appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Postell v. State“in lieu of other criminal penalties authorized by law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruth 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.