Archer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000), 759 So. 2d 650 - Thompson v. State (2000)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 Griffin v. United States · Victor v. Nebraska · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“error which reaches down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Claims that the instruction on the cold, calculated, and premeditated aggravator is unconstitutionally vague are procedurally barred unless the defendant both makes a specific objection or proposes an alternative instruction at trial and raises the issue on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The State and the Defendant may now present evidence relative to the nature of the crime and the character of the Defendant. You are instructed that this evidence when considered with the evidence you have already heard is presented in order that you might de termine, first, whether sufficient aggravating circumstances exist that would justify the imposition of the death penalty and, second, whether there are mitigating circumstances sufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstances, if any. As you have been told, the final decision as to what punishment shall be imposed is the responsibility of the Judge; however, it is your duty to follow the law that will now be given you by the Court and render to the Court an advisory sentence based upon your determination as to whether sufficient aggravating circumstances exist to justify the imposition of the death penalty and whether sufficient mitigating circumstances exist to outweigh any aggravating circumstances found to exist. If you find the aggravating circumstances do not justify the death penalty, your advisory sentence should be one of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for twenty-five years. Should you find sufficient aggravating circumstances do exist, it will then be your duty to determine whether mitigating circumstances exist that outweigh the aggravating circumstances. Each aggravating circumstance must be established beyond a reasonable doubt before it may be considered by you in arriving at your decis”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.