Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is more consonant, we think with the spirit of the concept of due process of law and the prohibition of double jeopardy, to say that when a valid sentence has been imposed , deliberately and intentionally, formal allocution has been conducted, and judgment of conviction and sentence entered of record, it cannot, in the absence of fraud or another reason more compelling than one presented by the circumstances in the instant case, be so changed at any time thereafter as to increase the severity of the sentence, rather than to make a time limit thereon dependent upon the vagaries of when the sentence commences to run." (emphasis supplied)”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jolly v. State · 473 So. 2d 1127 - Baker v. State

2. “`[t]he general rule is that "it is not within the power of the court to increase a sentence when punishment has already been suffered under the original sentence,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 877 So. 2d 635 - State v. AJ

3. “once a valid sentence is imposed upon a defendant, the trial court loses the power”

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