718 So. 2d 878 - Legette v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grant v. State · 498 So. 2d 929 - State v. Wimberly · 572 So. 2d 1336 - Nixon v. State · 585 So. 2d 282 - Amado v. State · 462 So. 2d 386 - Florida Bar re Amendment to Rules—Criminal Procedure
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcept in capital cases, the judge shall not instruct the jury on the sentence that may be imposed for the offense for which the accused is on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. State“that the jury should decide a case in accordance with the law and the evidence and disregard the consequences of its verdict.”
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.