32 So. 3d 261 - State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the defendant is convicted of two or more offenses based on the same act or transaction, or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the terms of imprisonment shall be served concurrently unless the court expressly directs that some or all be served consecutively. Other sentences of imprisonment shall be served consecutively unless the court expressly directs that some or all of them be served concurrently.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wing · State v. Davis

2. “Subject to the limitation of Article 723 of this Code, and except as otherwise prohibited by law, upon written motion of the defendant, the court shall order the district attorney to permit or authorize the defendant to inspect and copy, photograph or prosecutor made in connection with the particular case, and to permit or authorize the defendant or an expert working with the defendant, to inspect, copy, examine, test scientifically, photograph, or otherwise reproduce books, papers, documents, photographs, tangible objects, buildings, places, or copies or portions thereof that are within the possession, custody, or control of the state, and that are intended for use by the state as evidence in its case in chief at trial, or were obtained from or belong. to the defendant. [Emphasis supplied.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Le

3. “[B]oth the person and the property in his immediate possession may be searched at the station house after the arrest has occurred at another placet,] and if evidence of [a] crime is discovered, it may be seized and admitted in evidence. Nor is there any doubt that clothing or other belongings may be seized upon arrival of the accused at the place of detention and later subjected to laboratory analysis or that the test results are admissible at trial. ... With or without probable cause, the authorities were entitled at that point not only to search [the defendant’s] clothing but also to take it from him and keep it in official custody.... The police were also entitled to take from [the defendant] any evidence of the crime in his immediate possession, including his clothing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 64 So. 3d 790 - State v. Santini