823 So. 2d 740 - State v. Byars’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2018
18 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 576 So. 2d 1310 - Perkins v. State · 118 So. 2d 664 - Vocelle v. Knight Brothers Paper Company · 522 So. 2d 963 - Ray v. State · 733 So. 2d 955 - Miller v. State · Corn 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[o]ne of the most fundamental principles of Florida law is that penal statutes must be strictly construed according to their letter.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The provisions of this code and offenses defined by other statutes shall be strictly construed; when the language is susceptible of differing constructions, it shall be construed most favorably to the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny ambiguity or situations in which statutory language is susceptible to differing constructions must be resolved in favor of the person charged with an offense.”
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.