429 So. 2d 758 - Grant v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is fundamental to the American scheme of justice.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 501 So. 2d 54 - St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co. v. Welsh · 491 So. 2d 533 - Tedder v. Video Electronics, Inc.

2. “A lawyer charged with the duty of selecting a jury panel should not be deprived of the opportunity to exercise such peremptory challenges and such challenges for cause which he may have in order to provide him with the greatest opportunity to have a fair and impartial trial by a jury of his peers.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 470 So. 2d 4 - Video Electronics, Inc. v. Tedder · 461 So. 2d 1370 - King v. State

3. “`The better practice is to postpone the swearing in chief of the jurors until the full panel is obtained, so as to allow the longest possible time for peremptory challenges, but, in the absence of a statutory provision, the rule is that the time and manner of swearing jurors in chief, after they have been examined on voir dire and an opportunity given for challenges, are within the sound judicial discretion of the court, the exercise of which will not be disturbed by an appellate court unless clearly abused.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 470 So. 2d 4 - Video Electronics, Inc. v. Tedder