Wilburn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “criminal cases, offenses and crimes punishable by death or imprisonment for life... .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cox v. State · 512 So. 2d 1246 - Johnson v. State

2. “Although the Court, in Wilburn , was concerned with a statutory procedural safeguard, it is clear that the opinion intended to cover common law safeguards as heretofore announced by this Court. We said: We are of the opinion the legislative intent was to draw a clear distinction between the present life imprisonment statute (previously permissive of either life imprisonment or death) and the death penalty statutes permitting only that punishment. We think the legislative purpose of the distinction was to eliminate the confusion that had arisen from”

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

3. “All statutory procedural safeguards that are now a part of the laws enacted by the legislature involving so-called `capital' crimes or offenses ... . still are in full force and effect even though the death penalty has been removed from some of those offenses... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 512 So. 2d 1246 - Johnson v. State