921 So. 2d 538 - State v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably 136 S. Ct. 616 - Hurst v. Florida (2016), 202 So. 3d 40 - Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida (2016)
28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3593 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3594 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Shepard v. United States · Ring v. Arizona · Jones v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Findings in support of sentence of death.—Notwithstanding the recommendation of a majority of the jury, the court, after weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, shall enter a sentence of life imprisonment or death, but if the court imposes a sentence of death, it shall set forth in writing its findings upon which the sentence of death is based as to the facts: (a) That sufficient aggravating circumstances exist as enumerated in subsection (5), and (b) That there are insufficient mitigating circumstances to outweigh the aggravating circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a trial court departs from the essential requirements of law in a death penalty case by using a penalty phase special verdict form that details the jurors' determination concerning aggravating factors found by the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he trial court alone must make detailed findings about the existence and weight of aggravating circumstances; it has no jury findings on which to rely”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.