642 So. 2d 91 - Union v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2019
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 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · 451 So. 2d 844 - State v. Hogan · 570 So. 2d 1301 - Florida Bar Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating the Florida Bar-Chapter 6 (Legal Specialization & Education Programs) · 561 So. 2d 347 - Velazquez v. State · J. A. C. 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decedent's conduct may only be asserted as a defense to vehicular homicide when that conduct could be viewed as the sole proximate cause of the accident which resulted in the death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves v. State“only because the decedent, while attempting to operate the gear shift, instead grabbed the steering wheel and caused the vehicle to go out of control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves v. State“unjust to hold the defendant criminally responsible for the deceased's unexpected and near-suicidal conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reaves 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.