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← 663 SO2D 525 - State v. Young

State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

158
cited by 158 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

157 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 709 So. 2d 672 - State v. Johnson (1998), State v. Lindsey (2000)

157 state decisions

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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 State v. Dorthey · State v. Sepulvado · 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato · 660 So. 2d 204 - Mitchell v. AT & T · 340 So. 2d 1382 - State v. Williams

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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[he] is exceptional, which in this context means that because of unusual circumstances this defendant is a victim of the legislature's failure to assign sentences that are meaningfully tailored to the culpability of the offender, the gravity of the offense, and the circumstances of the case.”
    71 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Chairs · State v. Flowers
  2. “trial court may not depart from the legislatively mandated minimum simply because of some subjective impression or feeling about the defendant.”
    15 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Bell · State v. Yrle
  3. “Departures downward from the minimum sentence under the Habitual Offender Law should occur only in rare situations.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Chairs · State v. Carter

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.