Blanco v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), 774 So. 2d 637 - Rutherford v. Moore (2000)
1 federal appellate · 66 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Ake v. Oklahoma · Zant v. Stephens · Enmund v. Florida
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court in Campbell v. State, 571 So.2d 415 (Fla.1990), established relevant standards of review for mitigating circumstances: 1) Whether a particular circumstance is truly mitigating in nature is a question of law and subject to de novo review by this Court; 2) whether a mitigating circumstance has been established by the evidence in a given case is a question of fact and subject to the competent substantial evidence standard; and finally, 3) the weight assigned to a mitigating circumstance is within the trial court's discretion and subject to the abuse of discretion standard.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Elledge v. State · Tanzi v. State“narrow[s] the class of persons eligible for the death penalty”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Parker v. State · Miller v. State“must genuinely narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty and must reasonably justify the imposition of a more severe sentence on the defendant compared to others found guilty of murder.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Parker v. State · Miller 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.