Gudinas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

cited by 91 later decisions

states following

July 2018

most recently cited

90 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000), 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000)

90 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Wright v. Wright

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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“We have repeatedly rejected claims that it is error for a trial court to allow the State to pursue a felony murder theory when the indictment gave no notice of the theory.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 967 So. 2d 735 - Williams v. State · 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State
“[t]he attempted rape and accompanying violence of [Gudinas'] aborted entry into [the first woman's] car, and the actual rape and extreme violence of his murder of [the second woman] demonstrate a "meaningful relationship" between the two attacks as required by Crossley [v. State, 596 So.2d 447, 450 (Fla.1992) ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Rohan v. State · 731 So. 2d 812 - Hutchinson v. State
“Although Gudinas is certainly correct that he had a troubling past and had always been small for his age, there was no evidence presented that he was unable to take responsibility for his acts and appreciate the consequences thereof at the time of the murders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Troy v. State · 850 So. 2d 514 - Nelson v. State

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.