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705 So. 2d 1364 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
September 2014
most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2014

20 state decisions

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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 Gregg v. Georgia · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 668 So. 2d 954 - Terry v. State · 574 So. 2d 1059 - Nibert v. State · Kramer 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “death is not indicated in a single-aggravator case where there is substantial mitigation.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Bailey v. State · 959 So. 2d 187 - Offord v. State
  2. “[t]he people of Florida have designated the death penalty as an appropriate sanction for certain crimes, and in order to ensure its continued viability under our state and federal constitutions `the Legislature has chosen to reserve its application to only the most aggravated and unmitigated of [the] most serious crimes.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Cave v. State · Butler v. State
  3. “Although this legal precept—and indeed the rule of objective, dispassionate law in general—may sometimes be hard to abide, the alternative—a court ruled by emotion—is far worse.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 714 So. 2d 411 - Urbin v. State · 866 So. 2d 612 - NORTH FLA. WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES 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.