705 So. 2d 1320 - Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2015
18 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 615 So. 2d 688 - Spencer v. State · 648 So. 2d 85 - Jackson v. State · 525 So. 2d 833 - Grossman v. State · 486 So. 2d 578 - Kelley v. State · 440 So. 2d 570 - Jones 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Phillips' resentencing proceeding was a `completely new proceeding,' and the trial court was therefore under no obligation to make the same findings as those made in Phillips' prior sentencing proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. State“the Spencer rule is a mandatory one which must be followed in a death penalty sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ray v. State“disrupt or hinder a governmental function”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips 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.