652 So. 2d 359 - State v. Houck’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2018
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 634 So. 2d 180 - Houck 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he obvious legislative intent ... is to provide harsher punishment for, and hopefully deter, those persons who use instruments commonly recognized as having the purpose to inflict death and serious bodily injury upon other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The failure of the statute to broadly define the term `weapon' cannot be cured by jury speculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] paved surface is not commonly understood to be an instrument for combat against another person.”
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.