Melvin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc. (1997), 658 So. 2d 55 - State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Laforet (1995)
2 federal appellate · 111 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 634 So. 2d 607 - Novaton v. State · Voorhees 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bargained with the State and specifically agreed to plead to each charge and specifically accepted each sentence in exchange for reduced [punishment.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.