380 So. 2d 1303 - Cappetta v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “( o ) Defects and Variances. No indictment or information, or any count thereof, shall be dismissed or judgment arrested, or new trial granted on account of any defect in the form of the indictment or information or of misjoinder of offenses or for any cause whatsoever, unless the court shall be of the opinion that the indictment or information is so vague, indistinct and indefinite as to mislead the accused and embarrass him in the preparation of his defense or expose him after conviction or acquittal to substantial danger of a new prosecution for the same offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. York v. State

2. “if the crime of conspiracy has been alleged to have occurred between certain specified dates ... then the information or indictment must allege that the conspiracy was continuing throughout that specified period or that the conspiracy commenced at the beginning of that period and was not accomplished until the end.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. York v. State

3. “between the 1st day of May, 1979 and the 29th day of May, 1979.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. York v. State