Swann v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State · 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State · Gray v. State · 725 So. 2d 836 - Bell v. State · 790 So. 2d 773 - Conley v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause death, the ultimate penalty, was allowed under the prior statute, the imposition of a sentence of life without parole is not a more punitive sanction, and, therefore, does not violate the prohibition against ex post facto laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the State can rebut the presumption that the defendant could not receive a fair trial by proving that the trial court impaneled an impartial jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCune v. State“[m]otions for change of venue are left to the trial court's sound discretion.”
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.