Bruce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2018
13 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 549 So. 2d 1005 - Ranger Ins. Co. v. Bal Harbour Club · 322 So. 2d 473 - Benyard v. Wainwright · 337 So. 2d 805 - Division of Bond Finance v. Smathers · 633 So. 2d 1138 - Kirkland v. State · McNamara 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]entences of imprisonment for offenses not charged in the same indictment, information, or affidavit shall be served consecutively unless the court directs that two or more of the sentences be served concurrently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the trial judge fails to specify whether sentences imposed for offenses not charged in the same information or indictment be served concurrently, section 921.16(1) dictates that such sentences be served consecutively”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he legislature has vested the trial court with discretion in criminal cases to impose either concurrent or consecutive sentences in independent cases.”
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.