141 So. 2d 264 - Baugus v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

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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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * [I]t should be borne in mind that we do not have to deal with the question whether or not a wife can consent to a search of her husband's property for the woman who shared the room with Sikalis could not be dignified as a wife. They were two persons using the same property and either of them could authorize the search, and it further should not be forgot that in the whole plan the woman, as well as Sikalis and Baugus, was a participant." ( 141 So.2d at 268 )”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Blakely · 344 So. 2d 559 - Silva v. State

2. “* * * a preliminary hearing is not a step in due process of law and is not a prerequisite to a criminal prosecution or the filing of an indictment or information.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harrison v. Wainwright · 197 So. 2d 323 - Evans v. State

3. ““The final charge is that justice went astray when the assistant state attorney referred to the defendants as young hoodlums and added ‘that is what the F.B.I. calls them.’ . . . We might observe that the only definition of hoodlum available to us is ‘young rowdy’ or ‘street ruffian’ and these seem rather mild when applied to persons who engage in ‘hoodlumism’ to the extent of murdering for gain.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sommerville v. State