340 So. 2d 849 - Harrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 11 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No one has a better vantage point from which to observe the parties, the issues and the general circumstances than the trial court and great weight should be accorded its determination.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brinnon v. State. · 393 So. 2d 504 - Thomas v. State

2. ““All statements by a prosecutor which tend to convince a jury that one has committed murder must, as a natural byproduct, also be harmful to the reputation of the accused. But that is the prosecutor’s job. Error results only when a prosecutor makes a frontal attack on the character of the accused when there was no issue of character in the trial and from that attempts to extrapolate for the jury that one of such poor character is undoubtedly the type to commit the crime charged.””

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