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State v. Jackson

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Citation
478 So. 2d 1054
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
33 of 33
Citing cases (total)
33
Treatment dates
1987
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. State v. Jackson was overruled in part on retroactive use of changed sentencing guidelines. All 33 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

After the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court expressly receded from Jackson to the extent the decisions conflicted. The confirmed treatment is listed below. Later opinions continued to apply Jackson's separate requirement that sentencing departures have written reasons.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

33 later cases cite State v. Jackson; 33 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The court receded from Jackson's holding that sentencing guidelines in effect at sentencing could be applied even when changed after the offense.

    Wilkerson v. State · Supreme Court of Florida · filed

    We also recede from State v. Jackson to the extent that it conflicts with Miller v. Florida.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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