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← 927 SO2D 890 - Michelson v. State

Michelson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2011
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 474 So. 2d 1193 - Ramsey v. State · State v. Chapman · 823 So. 2d 110 - Amerace Corp. v. Stallings · 349 So. 2d 150 - State v. Gale Distributors, Inc. · 613 So. 2d 448 - Capital City Country Club v. Tucker

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.

  1. “When the appellate court determines that the evidence does not prove the offense for which the defendant was found guilty but does establish guilt of a lesser statutory degree of the offense or a lesser offense necessarily included in the offense charged, the appellate court shall reverse the judgment and direct the trial court to enter judgment for the lesser degree of the offense or for the lesser included offense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “consciously doing an act or following a course of conduct that the defendant must have known, or reasonably should have known, was likely to cause death or great bodily injury,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “If it is reasonably possible to do so, a court is obligated to interpret statutes in such a manner as to uphold their constitutionality.”
    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.