689 So. 2d 336 - O'BRIEN v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Simpkins v. State (2005), 705 So. 2d 133 - Davis v. State (1998)
34 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 Mize v. State · 652 So. 2d 409 - Isley v. State · 680 So. 2d 413 - Bonifay v. State · 640 So. 2d 1105 - Florida Bar v. Gentz · 666 So. 2d 140 - Kordon v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All or any part of the gain-time earned by a prisoner according to the provisions of law is subject to forfeiture if such prisoner ... is found by a court to have brought a frivolous suit, action, claim, proceeding, or appeal in any court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rooney v. State · Ali v. State“[it] appears to [us that defendant has] exhausted his post-conviction remedies and has certainly exhausted us in doing so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), and Johnson v. State, 680 So.2d 1101, 1102 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996) (the defendant”
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.