Smiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 160 So. 3d 393 - State of Florida v. Anthony Duwayne Horsley, Jr. (2015), 984 So. 2d 478 - Florida Hosp. Waterman, Inc. v. Buster (2008)
38 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
Relies on Steinhorst v. State · Witt v. State · 852 So. 2d 226 - FB v. State · 172 So. 2d 824 - Hedges v. State · 229 So. 2d 236 - State v. Garcia
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`whenever possible, [procedural or remedial] legislation should be applied to pending cases in order to fully effectuate the legislation's intended purpose.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“article X, section 9 of the Florida Constitution makes it constitutionally impermissible for section 776.013 to receive retroactive application”
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.