709 So. 2d 87 - Norton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 751 So. 2d 537 - Goodwin v. State (1999), 787 So. 2d 732 - Bradley v. State (2001)
1 federal appellate · 50 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson v. State · Sanders v. United States · 559 So. 2d 187 - State v. Law
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Premeditation is defined as more than a mere intent to kill; it is a fully formed conscious purpose to kill. This purpose may be formed a moment before the act but must exist for a sufficient length of time to permit reflection as to the nature of the act to be committed and the probable result of that act.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence from which premeditation may be inferred includes such matters as the nature of the weapon used, the presence or absence of adequate provocation, previous difficulties between the parties, the manner in which the homicide was committed, and the nature and manner of the wounds inflicted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough an unsolicited comment is not `invited' where it is unresponsive to the question asked, the defense counsel in the instant case, in an unsuccessful attempt to make a point on cross-examination, merely received a direct answer in response to his question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.