407 So. 2d 688 - State v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Finally, defendant assigns error in the jury's returning a verdict of attempted unlawful possession of a firearm, argues that attempt cannot be a responsive verdict under the facts of the case. R.S. 14:27(C) makes an attempt a lesser included offense of the charged crime. Defendant's argument appears to be with the legislature's definition of an attempt, but we are not persuaded that his rights were somehow violated when the jury convicted him only on attempt when they could have convicted him of the crime itself. Perhaps they reasoned that his offense was committed when he was outside the car and not in physical possession of the firearm at the time. Regardless, we find no merit to this assignment." State v. Ford, supra, at 691 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Crayton · State v. Ebey

2. “The facts of this case present no problem with respect to the first and second criteria. It was quite reasonable for the officers to stop this defendant and it was surely a normal police function for one of the officers to shine his flashlight on the inside of defendant's car to see what might be readily apparent there, while the other officer observed defendant at close range and questioned him in connection with suspected driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The butt of the gun was thus discovered inadvertently during this justified intrusion into the "protected area" of defendant's automobile.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 471 So. 2d 949 - State v. Burns