Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`in respect whereof a tax would be imposed if such beverage were manufactured in accordance with'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ellis · 80 So. 2d 694 - Byrd v. State

2. “We are fully aware of the language of Chapter 21839, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1943, F.S.A. §§ 561.01, 561.06, 561.09, 561.29, 561.35, enacted subsequent to the decision in Brown v. State, supra, indicating that taxes on manufacture of liquors shall affect all persons engaged' in such manufacture, presumably whether authorized under the act or not. It is true, however, that a majority of the court held in State v. Pridgen, supra, that after the act was passed, the rule announced in Brown v. State still applied. Even so, the information here assaulted charges failure to pay a tax which would have been due had the liquor been lawfully made, and Section 562.32 being still in force, the prosecutor, by using the subjunctive, properly stated an offense under the second category. There can be no disturbance of our holdings in the two cases cited by ruling now that the judgment should be and it is, affirmed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 6 Fla. Supp. 151 - State v. Ellis