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868 So. 2d 538 - Sousa v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State · State v. Cotton · 840 So. 2d 998 - Florida Convalescent Centers v. Somberg · 814 So. 2d 1172 - Mondesir v. State · 842 So. 2d 198 - Wilchcombe 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he court shall impose any term of imprisonment provided for in this subsection consecutively to any other term of imprisonment imposed for any other felony offense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “that when sentencing multiple offenses from the same criminal episode under section 775.087, the sentences should run concurrently.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “provide the legislative authorization necessary to require consecutive sentencing”
    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.