667 So. 2d 199 - State v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2014
8 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 Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Johnson v. Florida · Burdick v. State · Joyner v. State · 397 So. 2d 277 - Ruffin 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to protect society from habitual criminals who persist in the commission of crime after having been theretofore convicted and punished for crimes previously committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matthews“gives the trial court broad latitude to sentence defendants to extended prison terms in an effort to protect society from recidivists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matthews“take away much of the trial court's discretion in order to establish consistency in sentencing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matthews
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.