919 So. 2d 179 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 822 So. 2d 1089 - Graves v. State · 757 So. 2d 195 - Harris 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant should not be allowed to reap the benefits of an illegal sentence, which is lighter than what the legal sentence would have been, and then turn around and attack the legality of the illegal, lighter sentence when it serves his interest to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gatlin 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.