Trotter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2018
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Weaver v. Graham · Miller v. Florida · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 648 So. 2d 85 - Jackson 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“committed by a person under sentence of imprisonment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ustodial restraint has served in aggravation in Florida since the `sentence of imprisonment' circumstance was created,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No bill of attainder, ex post facto law or law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be passed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.