824 So. 2d 576 - Buffington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 514 So. 2d 295 - Faraga v. State · 685 So. 2d 715 - Yates v. State · 619 So. 2d 900 - Churchill v. Pearl River Basin Dev. Dist. · 765 So. 2d 508 - Eskridge v. State · 743 So. 2d 380 - Wolfe 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.
“(2)(a) Any person who shall intentionally (i) burn any child, (ii) torture any child or, (iii) except in self-defense or in order to prevent bodily harm to a third party, whip, strike or otherwise abuse or mutilate any child in such a manner as to cause serious bodily harm shall be guilty of felonious abuse of a child and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment ... for life or such lesser term of imprisonment as the court may determine, but not less than ten (10) years....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Furthermore, despite the fact that the majority warns that this case should in no way “be construed as an attempt to prevent parents, teachers and other custodians involved in child care from properly disciplining their children[,]” I fear that it will do just that. Redefining “serious bodily injury” to include the risk of temporary disfigurement means that any parent who leaves a bruise or red spot on a child as the result of a well-deserved spanking is at risk of being found guilty of felony child abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. State“the definition provided in Yates, while appropriate in aggravated [-] assault cases , is highly problematic due to the heightened level of vulnerability inherent in victims of child abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.