739 So. 2d 1230 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2016
16 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 Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · United States v. Watts · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas · 608 So. 2d 784 - Fotopoulos v. State · 477 So. 2d 544 - Winfield v. Div. of Pari-Mutuel Wagering
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant who challenges the constitutional validity of a statute bears a heavy burden of establishing its invalidity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Age limitations and restrictions may survive a constitutional challenge and be enforced if they pass the `rational basis' test, i.e., the age classifications are reasonably related to a permissible governmental objective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“more likely than others to understand the consequences of their actions and to cause harm to minors who cannot appreciate the seriousness of their activities”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowart v. State
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.