860 So. 2d 494 - Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2013
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 274 So. 2d 256 - Nelson v. State · McLaughlin v. State · 652 So. 2d 359 - State v. Houck · 776 So. 2d 1066 - State v. Williams · 660 So. 2d 1083 - Stacey v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Application of [the] rule [of lenity] means that if there is a reasonable construction of a penal statute favorable to the accused, the court must employ that construction.”
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.