State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 2003
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 660 So. 2d 1189 - State Ex Rel. Glover v. State · State v. Dorthey · 603 So. 2d 739 - State v. Lobato · 709 So. 2d 672 - State v. Johnson · State v. Lindsey
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the defendant was sentenced the first time, the trial judge stated that although in four years on the bench he had never made a downward departure in sentencing, in this case he deemed the life imprisonment term excessive in these circumstances and reduced the sentence accordingly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bentley
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.