701 So. 2d 837 - Shellito v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State (2002), 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000)
65 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 Walton v. Arizona · Zehrbach v. United States · Miller v. Johnson · LaSalle Bank Lake View v. United States · Straight 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“brief reference to [defendant's] lack of remorse was of minor consequence and constituted harmless error”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Instead, the trial judge is to evaluate the defendant's age based on the evidence adduced at trial and at the sentencing hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no per se rule exists which pinpoints a particular age as an automatic factor in mitigation.”
3 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.