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← 820 SO2D 337 - Howard v. State

Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Townsend v. Burke · Wasman v. United States · Brown v. State · 514 So. 2d 1079 - Booker 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he sentencing court or jury must be permitted to consider any and all information that reasonably might bear on the proper sentence for a particular defendant, given the crime committed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “that when a sentence is within statutory limits, it is not subject to review by an appellate court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “where the facts establish a violation of a specific constitutional right during sentencing.”
    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.