Van Wagner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 835 So. 2d 259 - State v. Carter (2002), Savage v. State (2013)
59 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 In Re Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851 · 604 So. 2d 1265 - Steiner v. State · 529 So. 2d 726 - Hightower v. State · 566 So. 2d 69 - Young v. State · 574 So. 2d 294 - Kolovrat 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish a violation of probation, the prosecution must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that a probationer willfully violated a substantial condition of probation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Corker v. State · EP v. State“Where a probationer makes reasonable efforts to comply with a condition of probation, violation of the condition cannot be deemed `willful.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court has broad discretion to determine whether there has been a willful and substantial violation of a term of probation. . . .”
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.