455 So. 2d 101 - Cady v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Even though the witness was older than the witnesses in the cases cited, we believe the nearness of the age of the witness in the instant case to the ages of the witnesses in the cited cases [in Gamble, supra], whose answers to leading questions on direct examination were authoritatively approved, is a proper factor to be considered in this case; especially so, we think, because of the delicacy of the subject matter."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 511 So. 2d 951 - Beavers v. State

2. “"One exception is found in the permissible introduction of evidence as to the details of the victim's complaint for the purpose of corroborating the victim's testimony on direct examination as to the details of the crime, as to which the victim has been subjected to cross-examination calculated to reflect upon her credibility as a witness."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 565 So. 2d 1153 - Lee v. State

3. “`within the discretion of the trial court to permit leading questions asked of an immature witness on direct examination by the party who called him'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 511 So. 2d 951 - Beavers v. State