Miles v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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. “in the theft statute, section 812.014(1), Florida Statutes (Supp. 1978), was equivalent to the use of the word”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · 410 So. 2d 510 - Ervin v. State

2. “(1) As used in this act: (a) ‘Habitual felony offender’ means a defendant for whom the court may impose an extended term of imprisonment, as provided in this section, if it finds that: 1. The defendant has: a. Previously been convicted of a felony in this state; b. Twice previously been convicted of a misdemeanor of the first degree in this state or of another qualified offense for which the defendant was convicted after the defendant’s 18th birthday; * * * * * * (c) ‘Qualified offense’ means any offense in violation of a law of another state or of the United States that was punishable under the law of such state or the United States at the time of its commission by the defendant by death or imprisonment exceeding 1 year or that was equivalent in penalty to a misdemeanor of the first degree, (emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 469 So. 2d 216 - Howard v. State