424 So. 2d 659 - Ex Parte DeMent’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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In cases in which the property to be seized does not include a controlled substance, a search warrant must be executed in the daytime unless the affidavits state positively that the property is on the person or in the place to be searched, in which case it may be executed at any time of the day or night. Except in cases in which the property to be seized includes a controlled substance, the issuing judge or magistrate must state in the warrant, according to the character of the affidavits, whether it is to be executed by day or at any time of the day or night. In cases in which the property to be seized includes a controlled substance, a warrant may be executed at any time of the day or night."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 568 So. 2d 416 - Dentmon v. State

2. “reach the question of whether such legislation would be constitutional if applied to the entire state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 568 So. 2d 416 - Dentmon v. State

3. “any circuit composed of one county and having not less than five nor more than seven circuit judges,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 568 So. 2d 416 - Dentmon v. State