375 So. 2d 836 - State v. Pinder’s Empirical Analysis

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98 state decisions

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

1. “... [W]here premeditated murder is charged, but the only evidence to sustain the murder conviction is furnished by proof that the killing occurred as the result of one of the felonies enumerated in section 782.04(1), we hold that the defendant may not be convicted and punished for both the felony murder and the underlying felony.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 391 So. 2d 776 - Hillery v. State · 403 So. 2d 355 - Tafero v. State

2. “[t]he unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated from a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed ... or when committed by a person engaged in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate [certain enumerated felonies, [1] including robbery,] ... shall be murder in the first degree ...”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Calvin Weatherspoon v. State of Florida · 397 So. 2d 354 - Thompson v. State

3. “Had there been evidence of premeditation. .. there would be no question that Pinder could have been convicted of the first-degree murder, burglary, and the sexual battery because, in that event, proof of the felony would not have been necessary to sustain the murder conviction. 375 So.2d at 839 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 397 So. 2d 1049 - Williams v. State