728 So. 2d 1165 - Rivera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably State v. Spencer (1999), 817 So. 2d 841 - Armstead v. State (2002)
51 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 Ex parte Fahey · Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co. · in Re Jessie McDonald · State v. Boyd · 718 So. 2d 159 - Hawk 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has a responsibility to ensure every citizen's right of access to the courts. . . . A limitation on [the petitioner's] ability to file would further the constitutional right to access for other litigants because it would permit this Court to devote its finite resources to the consideration of legitimate claims filed by others.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he resources of our court system are finite and must be reserved for the resolution of genuine disputes.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State · Harvey v. State“in a way that promotes the interests of justice.”
5 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.