Breedwell 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. “"A charge upon the effect of the evidence is a charge which instructs the jury that certain facts in issue have been proved or not proved, or that certain evidence in the case does or does not establish a certain fact or facts in dispute, or directs the jury what their finding on an issue of fact must be if they believe the evidence in the case, etc."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 353 So. 2d 542 - Beckley v. State

2. “the charge criticised is clearly not a charge upon the effect of the evidence but one merely in explanation and illustration of the meaning of a rule of evidence given on a hypothesized state of facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 353 So. 2d 542 - Beckley v. State

3. “the purpose and effect of the joinder was to meet the different aspects in which the evidence may present a single transaction”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 383 So. 2d 547 - Williams v. State