Bottoson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
157
cited by 157 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Teague v. Lane · Furman v. Georgia
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If a precedent of this Court has direct application in a case, yet appears to rest on reasons rejected in some other line of decisions, the [other courts] should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions.' " Bottoson, 833 So.2d, at 695 (quoting Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc., 490 U.S. 477 , 484, 109 S.Ct. 1917 , 104 L.Ed.2d 526 (1989) ); see also 147 So.3d, at 446-447 (case below).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the United States Supreme Court repeatedly has reviewed and upheld Florida's capital sentencing statute over the past quarter of a century.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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