Bonds v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Words used in a statute must be given their natural, plain, ordinary, and commonly understood meaning, and where plain language is used a court is bound to interpret that language to mean exactly what it says. If the language of the statute is unambiguous, then there is no room for judicial construction and the clearly expressed intent of the legislature must be given effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Solomon

2. “[a] person commits the crime of a school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19 years if he or she is a school employee and engages in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 272 So. 3d 732 - Pruitt v. State

3. “For purposes of this article, school employee includes a teacher....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 272 So. 3d 732 - Pruitt v. State