686 So. 2d 36 - State v. Handy’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2013
19 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 State v. Dorthey · State v. Sepulvado · State v. Lombard
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) makes no measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment and hence is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering; or (2) is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the purposeful imposition of pain and suffering”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the trial judge gave reasons for finding the statutorily mandated sentence to be constitutionally excessive, he failed to justify his reduction of the sentence from the statutorily mandated sentence of life imprisonment down to six years. Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is vacated and the case is remanded to the trial court to justify its deviation from the constitutionally mandated sentence in this case and to render the maximum sentence that is not constitutionally excessive.”
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.