314 So. 2d 573 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 36 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In both adult and juvenile divisions of our court system, the State Attorney is the prosecuting officer. In any particular case he may elect to prosecute or not. The prosecutorial discretion to which the appellant objects is no more than that which is inherent in our system of criminal justice. Its origin is found in the common law of England. Similarly in the Federal system the Federal courts have consistently held that the discretion of the Attorney General in choosing whether to prosecute or not to prosecute, or to abandon a prosecution already started, is absolute.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 381 So. 2d 1361 - State v. Cain · 465 So. 2d 1379 - State v. CCB

2. “"A child of any age charged with a violation of Florida law punishable by death or by life imprisonment shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the court as set out in § 39.06(7) unless and until an indictment on such charge is returned by the grand jury, in which event and at which time the court shall be divested of jurisdiction under this statute and the charge shall be made and the child shall be handled in every respect as if he were an adult."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCloud v. State · 433 So. 2d 487 - Lisak v. State

3. “handled in every respect as if he were an adult.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 336 So. 2d 437 - State v. Robinson · 352 So. 2d 88 - Ringel v. State