733 So. 2d 926 - Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 366 So. 2d 740 - Temple v. State · 651 So. 2d 663 - Molton v. State · 534 So. 2d 1126 - Perry v. State · 639 So. 2d 1370 - State Dept. of Transp. v. McLelland · Crear 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under the established rules of statutory construction, the words used in a statute must be given their natural, plain, ordinary, and commonly understood meaning, and the court is bound to interpret the plain language to mean exactly what it says."”
2 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.