708 So. 2d 401 - State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Carter (2008), 55 So. 3d 56 - State v. Dillard (2010)
61 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 6901 (Federal Facility Compliance Act of 1992)
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. International Minerals & Chemical Corp. · Palmer v. City of Euclid · 448 So. 2d 645 - State v. Davis
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he indictment fails to charge an offense which is punishable under a valid statute.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.”
2 later decisions 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.