Floyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “At best, [it] reveals that the defendant was seen six blocks from the accident sometime after its occurrence. He was in an intoxicated state and there was blood on him. He owned a 1966 Rambler. However, the mere suspicion or possibility of guilt is not sufficient to sustain a conviction .... To say with certainty that the defendant was the driver or operator under these facts is to rest the convictions upon surmise and conjecture and not upon proper and reasonable inferences inevitably drawn from the web of evidence. For these reasons the convictions cannot stand.”

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