Lockhart v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]e do not say, however, that [the police reports] are only discoverable when the officers are `eyewitnesses' to the crime”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 536 So. 2d 189 - Downing v. State · 515 So. 2d 1032 - Downing v. State

2. “a written statement made by said person and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him, or a stenographic, mechanical, electrical, or other recording, or a transcript thereof, or which is a substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement made by said person to an officer or agent of the State and recorded contemporaneously with the making of such oral statement... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 413 So. 2d 1 - Breedlove v. State