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1998

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
4
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State of Arizona v. Powers (2001), 894 So. 2d 941 - State v. Florida (2005)

30 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 Albernaz v. United States · Henderson v. Brown · 547 So. 2d 613 - State v. Smith · 483 So. 2d 420 - State v. Johnson · MP 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[O]ur reading of section 316.027 convinces us that the intended `unit of prosecution' for these offenses is not the number of victims, but the number of accidents.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he proper remedy is to vacate the conviction for the lesser offense while affirming the conviction for the greater one.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “In determining the constitutionality of multiple convictions and sentences for offenses arising from the same criminal transaction, the dispositive question is whether the legislature "intended to authorize separate punishments for the two crimes." Albernaz v. United States, 450 U.S. 333, 334 , 101 S.Ct. 1137, 1145 , 67 L.Ed.2d 275 (1981); accord State v. Smith, 547 So.2d 613, 614 (Fla.1989).”
    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.