703 So. 2d 444 - State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 807 So. 2d 122 - State v. Tyrrell (2002), 885 So. 2d 376 - Gibson v. Florida Dept. of Corrections (2004)
42 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 531 So. 2d 161 - Poore v. State · 701 So. 2d 865 - McEachern v. State · Gaskins v. State · 660 So. 2d 385 - Warrington v. State · 642 So. 2d 740 - Disbrow 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely summarize[ed] the complex statutory sentencing options available at that time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) The court may also impose a split sentence whereby the defendant is sentenced to a term of probation which may be followed by a period of incarceration ... as follows: (a) If the offender meets the terms and conditions of probation or community control, any term of incarceration may be modified by court order to eliminate the term of incarceration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As long as there exists a valid reason for a downward departure, a trial court may impose a true split sentence in which the entire period of incarceration is suspended. A trial court may also impose a true split sentence in which the period of community control and probation is shorter than the suspended portion of incarceration.”
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.