Goswick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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. “"* * * in particular the Defendant objects to the fact that the general charge of the Court in defining aggravated assault, simple assault, assault and battery and simple assault did not mention nor did it make it clear to the jury that if the jury found that the Defendant had been assaulted with a weapon which they had found not to be a deadly weapon then the verdict would be assault and battery."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 So. 2d 817 - Goswick v. State

2. “"Whoever assaults another with a deadly weapon, without intent to kill, shall be guilty of an aggravated assault, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years or in the county jail not exceeding one year or by fine not exceeding three thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment." (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 So. 2d 817 - Goswick v. State

3. “whether assault and battery is a lesser included offense of the statutory crime of aggravated assault.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 So. 2d 817 - Goswick v. State