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← 801 SO2D 1032 - Jordan v. State

Jordan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 525 So. 2d 875 - Holloman v. State · 335 So. 2d 815 - Thayer v. State · State v. Smith · 724 So. 2d 1176 - Wallace v. State · 191 So. 2d 33 - State Ex Rel. Lee v. Buchanan

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]t is not the prerogative of this court to melt this statute and recast it in a mold of our choosing. The general principle which we must adhere to, simply put, requires this court to interpret legislation, not rewrite it.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The State argues, finally, that assuming that Jordan was charged with a nonexistent crime, it has the option of either filing an information that charges a valid offense or withdrawing from the plea agreement entirely and proceeding to trial on all counts in both cases. We agree.”
    1 later decision 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.