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← 696 SO2D 893 - Myers v. State

Myers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 537 So. 2d 982 - Smith v. State · 661 So. 2d 1274 - Gardner v. State · 692 So. 2d 199 - Martinez v. State · 693 So. 2d 52 - Mays v. State · 691 So. 2d 502 - Green 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.

  1. “(2) Recommended sentences: .... If the total sentence points are greater than 52, the sentence must be a state prison sentence calculated by total sentence points. A state prison sentence is calculated as follows: State prison months = total sentence points minus 28. The recommended sentence length in state prison months may be increased by up to, and including, 25 percent or decreased by up to, and including, 25 percent, at the discretion of the court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mays v. State
  2. “§ 921.001(5) (emphasis supplied). It is only by changing the articles that the Fifth District is able to conclude that even when the recommended sentence exceeds the section 775.082 maximum, the court could still impose a 25% variation because it would be”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mays v. State
  3. “[b]ecause every defendant is presumed to know the law and has actual knowledge of one's own criminal history... there is no possible claim of lack of notice as to the guidelines maximum that will be imposed for these offenses.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 743 So. 2d 585 - Rollinson 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.