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← 69 SO3D 235 - Dufour v. State

Dufour v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Atkins v. Virginia · State v. White · Jones v. State · 2 So. 3d 137 - Nixon v. State · 984 So. 2d 503 - Phillips 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.

  1. “[t]he skills possessed by individuals with [intellectual disability] vary considerably, and the fact that an individual possesses one or more that might be thought by some laypersons as inconsistent with the diagnosis (such as holding a menial job, or using public transportation) cannot be taken as disqualifying.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “assessments must ... assume that limitations in individuals often coexist with strengths, and that a person's level of life functioning will improve if appropriate personalized supports are provided over a sustained period.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “the effectiveness or degree with which an individual meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility expected of his or her age, cultural group, and community.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.