440 So. 2d 307 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]e have reasoned that such an instruction `probably brought to the attention of the jurors, and impressed them, the fact that [the defendant] did not testify, more than the argument of the district attorney.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 865 So. 2d 1111 - Schuck v. State · 707 So. 2d 547 - De La Beckwith v. State

2. “In considering the question of whether or not a directed verdict or a peremptory instruction should have been granted for the appellant, the reviewing court must consider as true all the evidence introduced, which is favorable to the State, together with all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, and, if they present an issue for determination by the jury, then the case must be submitted to the jury and will not be disturbed, if that evidence and those inferences support the guilty verdict. (Citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 456 So. 2d 209 - Cumbest v. State

3. “[police] officers who have legitimately stopped an automobile and who have probable cause to believe that contraband is concealed somewhere within it may conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle as thorough as a magistrate could authorize by warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 587 So. 2d 905 - Franklin v. State