641 So. 2d 378 - Derrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2018
12 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 Allen v. United States · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · White v. Illinois
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury instructions simply give the jurors a list of arguably relevant aggravating factors from which to choose in making their assessment as to whether death was the proper sentence in light of any mitigating factors presented in the case. The judge, on the other hand, must set out the factors he finds both in aggravation and in mitigation, and it is this sentencing order which is subject to review vis-a-vis doubling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Derrick was "quite young" at the time of the killing and that Derrick has some potential for rehabilitation. The court also found that Derrick had helped illiterate inmates in prison and had helped his handicapped brother.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a statement to the [police], [the defendant] indicated that the victim recognized him and that he killed the victim to `shut him up.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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