Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2011
13 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 596 So. 2d 73 - Judge v. State · 571 So. 2d 70 - Haines v. State · Greenlee v. State · Brown v. State · 605 So. 2d 994 - Harper 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a defendant who has been sentenced as a habitual offender can prove that his prior offenses do not qualify him as a habitual offender, he will have established that his sentence is illegal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant cannot stipulate to habitual offender sentencing `when the underlying substantive offenses necessary for such a sentence do not exist.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant cannot authorize the trial court to impose an illegal sentence, even by virtue of a plea agreement.”
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.