Snipes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State (2002), 739 So. 2d 568 - Ramirez v. State (1999)
28 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 Colorado v. Connelly · Fare v. Michael C. · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 615 So. 2d 688 - Spencer v. State · 714 So. 2d 411 - Urbin 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was sexually abused for a number of years as a child, [and] he abused drugs and alcohol beginning at a young age.... He was raised in a dysfunctional, alcoholic family, [and] suffered childhood trauma.... He also suffers emotional stress and a personality disorder due to his early childhood. Importantly, Snipes voluntarily confessed to the crime and told others about it, he expressed remorse, and the State depended upon Snipes' statements to obtain a conviction against him and a warrant against a codefendant. Additionally, the crime was arranged by older individuals, and testimony reflected that Snipes was easily led by older persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant in Bonifay had admitted involvement in several prior crimes, one of which was a prior burglary in which someone was stabbed several months prior to the murder. Further, not only was the defendant in Bonifay hired to commit the murder; when the murder actually occurred, Bonifay callously killed the wrong person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant's age of seventeen was particularly compelling when coupled with the substantial impairment [e.g., drug and alcohol abuse, dyslexia, employment history] and family neglect [e.g., lack of a father].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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