369 So. 2d 39 - Speigner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the burden o[n] the prosecution to show by clear and convincing evidence that the in-court identification testimony had an independent source and did not stem from the . . . unfair pretrial confrontation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 607 So. 2d 369 - Hull v. State

2. “[m]urder is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than 10 years to life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 424 So. 2d 1365 - Slaughter v. State