681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
307 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Klauenberg v. State (1999), 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State (2003)
307 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 Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Rummel v. Estelle · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Raphan v. United States
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sentencing is within the complete discretion of the trial court and not subject to appellate review if it is within the limits prescribed by statute.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lett v. State · Wells v. State“In light of Harmelin , it appears that Solem is to apply only when a threshold comparison of the crime committed to the sentence imposed leads to an inference of `gross disproportionality.'”
23 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bonner v. State · Robinson v. State“If a party does not provide this support this Court is under no duty to consider assignments of error when no authority is cited.”
18 later decisions 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.