700 So. 2d 370 - LB v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Bunkley v. Florida (2003), 831 So. 2d 93 - Westerheide v. State (2002)
1 federal appellate · 76 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 Kolender v. Lawson · Roth v. United States · United States v. Powell · 588 So. 2d 957 - Department of Law Enf. v. Real Property · 387 So. 2d 943 - State v. Hagan
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court may refer to a dictionary to ascertain the plain and ordinary meaning which the legislature intended to ascribe to the term”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" ‘Weapon’ means any dirk, metallic knuckles, slungshot, billie, tear gas gun, chemical weapon or device, or other deadly weapon except a firearm or a common pocketknife.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A type of knife occurring frequently in the community which has a blade that folds into the handle and that can be carried in one's pocket.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.