375 So. 2d 1285 - Oates v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[W]hen evidence is admitted on direct examination, and later, during cross-examination, it appears that such evidence was not admissible, and the complaining party does not make a proper motion to exclude such evidence from the jury, the trial court cannot be put in error for permitting that evidence to remain before the jury." [Citations omitted]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 411 So. 2d 819 - Slaughter v. State

2. “(T)he exceptor must select and recite what was said, or state the substance of what was said, and thus, specifically bring to the attention of the trial court and this court the matter and ruling of which was made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 412 So. 2d 1278 - Harris v. State

3. “Refusal to give written requested charges was not error when charges were either thoroughly covered in the trial court's oral charge, or inapplicable or abstract, or an incorrect statement of the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 555 So. 2d 219 - Whisenhant v. State