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← 996 SO2D 964 - Hamilton v. State

Hamilton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 630 So. 2d 521 - Hale v. State · 660 So. 2d 1384 - Ratcliffe v. State · 867 So. 2d 469 - Fuller v. State · Kiedrowski v. State · Davis 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “do[es] not, in the aggregate, exceed the maximum he could have received if all sentences subject to enhancement under the habitual felony offender statute had been enhanced (but run concurrently), and because his sentence[ ] also do[es] not, in the aggregate, exceed the maximum he could have received if none of his sentences had been enhanced but all had been ordered to run consecutively”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The Kiedrowski decision acknowledged that a non-habitual felony offender sentence could be made to run consecutively to a habitual felony offender sentence for felony offenses arising out of the same criminal episode, but held that such sentences violate Hale where, when combined, their length exceeds the maximum the defendant could have received under the habitual offender statute.”
    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.