440 So. 2d 134 - State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Thus, the positive identification of a defendant as the perpetrator of a distinctively similar previous crime is often permitted to enhance the otherwise uncorroborated identification of that person as the perpetrator of the charged crime. In such cases, the evidence of the uncharged crime has much higher relevance and far greater probative value than evidence which merely indicates that the defendant has a propensity to engage in all kinds of criminal activity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Garcia · 85 So. 3d 759 - State v. Williams

2. “Evidence of other crimes may be admitted when the prior crime by the particular defendant is so distinctively similar to the charged crime (especially in terms of time, place and manner of commission) that one may reasonably infer that the same person was the perpetrator.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 782 So. 2d 136 - State v. Brown · 776 So. 2d 418 - State v. Bell

3. “[t]he greater the degree of similarity of the offenses, the more the evidence enhances the probability that the same person was the perpetrator, and hence the greater the evidence's probative value, which is to be ultimately weighed against its prejudicial effect.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 949 So. 2d 1236 - State v. Rose · 761 So. 2d 516 - State v. Hills