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← 706 SO2D 1340 - Elledge v. State

Elledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
October 2006
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Midland Central Appraisal District v. Midland Industrial Service Corp. · Toski v. McDonnell · LaSalle Bank Lake View v. United States

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “weight assigned to a mitigating circumstance is within the trial court's discretion and subject to the abuse of discretion standard.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Morton v. State · 841 So. 2d 329 - Bell v. State
  2. “[D]iscretion is abused only where no reasonable man would take the view adopted by the trial court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 841 So. 2d 329 - Bell v. State · 857 So. 2d 845 - Spann v. State
  3. “no reasonable person would [have] give[n] this circumstance [little] weight.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 857 So. 2d 845 - Spann v. State · 919 So. 2d 347 - Perez 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.