678 So. 2d 330 - Capers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 898 So. 2d 1 - Knowles v. Beverly Enterprises-Florida (2004), 772 So. 2d 1273 - Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris (2000)
38 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 Missouri v. Hunter · 547 So. 2d 613 - State v. Smith · 335 So. 2d 815 - Thayer v. State · St. Petersburg Bank & Trust Co. v. Hamm · Florida State Racing Commission v. McLaughlin
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plain meaning of statutory language is the first consideration of statutory construction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is, of course, a general principle of statutory construction that the mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another; expressio unius est exclusio alterius.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“1994 sentencing guidelines supersede existing case law that conflicts with the purpose or principle of the new guidelines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. State · Rendon v. State
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.