39 So. 3d 860 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 22 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Deliberate always indicates full awareness of what one is doing, and generally implies careful and unhurried consideration of the consequences. “Design” means to calculate, plan, [or] contemplate .... [Deliberate design to kill a person may be formed very quickly, and perhaps only moments before the act of consummating the intent....”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griffith v. State · Jackson v. State

2. “[I]t is essential that the excited and angry condition of the party committing the act which would entitle him to the milder consideration of the law, should be superinduced by some insult, provocation, or injury, which would naturally and instantly produce, in the minds of ordinarily constituted men, the highest degree of exasperation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griffith v. State · 54 So. 3d 317 - Leggett v. State

3. “[Wjhere the defendant or the defendant’s witnesses are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the [SJtate, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boleyn v. State · 94 So. 3d 1232 - Laurent v. State