Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
228 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000), 714 So. 2d 429 - State v. Mancino (1998)
228 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 Zehrbach v. United States · 478 So. 2d 1054 - State v. Jackson · Ree v. State · 448 So. 2d 1013 - State v. Rhoden · 598 So. 2d 1063 - Smith 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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n illegal sentence is one that exceeds the maximum period set forth by law for a particular offense without regard to the guidelines.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. State · Blakley v. State“a departure sentence that is beyond the guidelines may be an erroneous sentence when written reasons are not properly filed, but it is not an illegal sentence when it is still within the maximum allowed by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the failure to file contemporaneous written reasons for a departure sentence that is within the maximum period provided by law may not be raised as error for the first time in a collateral relief proceeding.”
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.