Wright 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. “"That the procedures under said § 775.11 may well be archaic and cumbersome and that the legislature in the upcoming session may well wish to reconsider its failure in 1971 to repeal that section when it sought to streamline the recidivism concept by enacting § 775.084, ..." Id. at 121.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 So. 2d 601 - Moore v. State · 321 So. 2d 464 - McShay v. State

2. “was intended to be substituted in the stead of the repealed sections and ... was to be the sole general recidivist statute in force.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 So. 2d 601 - Moore v. State

3. “insofar as the procedures are concerned for the imposition of enhanced punishment in the normal recidivist situation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 So. 2d 601 - Moore v. State