Blakley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 848 So. 2d 287 - State v. McBride (2003), 786 So. 2d 1173 - Carter v. State (2001)
45 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 714 So. 2d 429 - State v. Mancino · State v. Callaway · Davis v. State · 448 So. 2d 1013 - State v. Rhoden · 487 So. 2d 1045 - State v. Whitfield
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a kind of punishment that no judge under the entire body of sentencing statutes could possibly inflict under any set of factual circumstances.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bruno v. State · Allen v. State“are those that are illegal because they exceed the [statutory] maximum, ... those that were unconstitutionally increased after they had been imposed, and those for which no record, earned jail credit was given,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If there is error in any other kind of sentence, and particularly if it involves any factual inquiry, under the current decisions of our supreme court such error must be corrected in direct review or possibly under rule 3.850, but not under rule 3.800(a)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith 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.