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← 826 SO2D 509 - Staffney v. State

Staffney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 732 So. 2d 1065 - Banks v. State · 712 So. 2d 374 - Pease v. State · 706 So. 2d 32 - State v. Spioch · 714 So. 2d 1153 - State v. Merritt · 746 So. 2d 553 - State v. Bleckinger

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he offense was committed in an unsophisticated manner and was an isolated incident for which the defendant has shown remorse.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “`mixed question of law and fact and will be sustained on review if the court applied the right rule of law and if competent substantial evidence supports its ruling.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Cases generally define 'unsophisticated' as the opposite of 'sophisticated,' which in turn is defined as 'having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement; lacking in natural simplicity or naiveté.'”
    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.