Sweeney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2006
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 630 So. 2d 521 - Hale v. State · Witt v. State · State v. Callaway · 681 So. 2d 1136 - King v. State · 586 So. 2d 1058 - Flowers 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section, any person who is convicted of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer engaged in the lawful performance of his duty or who is convicted of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer when the motivation for such attempt was related, all or in part, to the lawful duties of the officer, shall be guilty of a life felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.0825.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely applied principles of statutory construction in holding that the statute implicitly requires a factual finding of the victim's status; it did not create nor abrogate any substantive rights or offense[s],”
1 later decision 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.