698 So. 2d 923 - Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2018
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 547 So. 2d 630 - Hamilton v. State · 636 So. 2d 869 - Garramone v. State · Nelson v. State · 573 So. 2d 74 - Cooper v. State · 613 So. 2d 530 - Miller 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.
“Appellant’s defense ... was battered women’s syndrome. She claimed that her husband fell into her knife while lunging at her rather than that she thrust it at him. The question of whether appellant’s act of waving two knives in front of her to shield her face from her husband’s assault constituted deadly or non-deadly force should have been a question for the jury under the proper instruction from the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A firearm is, by definition, a deadly weapon which fires projectiles likely to cause death or great bodily harm; whenever it is fired in the vicinity of human beings, as here, there is real danger that the fired projectile may hit someone, even if not aimed at anyone, as such projectiles are quite capable of ricocheting off nearby objects and hitting people in the area.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“although a knife is a weapon, it is not necessarily a deadly weapon. Clearly, the question of whether this club was a deadly weapon was an issue of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.