744 So. 2d 413 - Provenzano v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 760 So. 2d 126 - Volusia County v. Aberdeen at Ormond Beach (2000), 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 115 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Tibbs v. Florida · Weaver v. Graham
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violates the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Florida] Legislature, while providing for lethal injection if electrocution is declared unconstitutional, has elected to retain electrocution as its sole method of execution. This leaves the Court with no choice but to fulfill our obligation to examine the constitutional question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Esposito v. State“It is my view that the [Florida] Legislature can foreclose many of these claims by simply amending Florida's death penalty statute to provide that death sentences should be carried out by lethal injection unless the defendant requests execution by electrocution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Esposito 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.