Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State · 714 So. 2d 429 - State v. Mancino · Davis v. State · Ree v. State · 598 So. 2d 1063 - Smith 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is not the only evil of illegality contemplated by rule 3.800, we noted in Davis that it was this fundamental concern to correct a sentence in excess of the legal maximum that provided the primary example for the rule’s policy of providing unlimited time to challenge a wrongful imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Durant v. State“A court may at any time correct an illegal sentence . . . when it is affirmatively alleged that the court records demonstrate on their face an entitlement to that relief. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impose[s] a kind of punishment that no judge under the entire body of sentencing statutes could possibly inflict under any set of factual circumstances.”
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.