Trotter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2016
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fare v. Michael C. · 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State · 681 So. 2d 82 - Morgan v. State · 863 So. 2d 776 - Wilcher v. State · 794 So. 2d 181 - Williams 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crime committed, it may be reviewed on Eighth Amendment grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woods 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.