Brady v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We do not know, upon a new trial, what another rendition of the tape recording might be like nor what the evidence will be. Neither are we called upon to enunciate what circumstances would render proper the use or admission into evidence of transcripts of sound recordings as a part of a trial procedure. ( 178 So.2d at 126 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Golden v. State

2. “[t]he recording was admitted into evidence, while the transcript, although excluded as evidence, was permitted by the court to be used by each juror in the form of copies distributed among them to aid them in their understanding of the recording as it was being played.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Golden v. State

3. “prepared by officers of the law through repeated reruns or playbacks of the recording and the subsequent dictation of what was made of it into a dictaphone, whence it was reduced to typewriting by a stenographer in the prosecuting attorney's office,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Golden v. State