721 So. 2d 1155 - Guzman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 748 So. 2d 1028 - Stephens v. State (1999), Mansfield v. State (2000)
45 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 Sanders v. United States · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · Total Foods v. Alix · 408 So. 2d 1024 - Jent v. State · Walls v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intention of the killer to inflict pain on the victim is not a necessary element of the [HAC] aggravator. As previously noted, the HAC aggravator may be applied to torturous murders where the killer was utterly indifferent to the suffering of another.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only in torturous murders-those that evince extreme and outrageous depravity as exemplified either by the desire to inflict a high degree of pain or utter indifference to or enjoyment of the suffering of another.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“superior vantage point to see and hear the witnesses and judge their credibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.