458 So. 2d 1357 - State v. Ester’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A. First degree murder is the killing of a human being: (4) When the offender has specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm and has offered, has been offered, has given, or has received anything of value for the killing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Holmes

2. “is grounded in an improper effort to equate the hearsay testimony of Ms. Gaines regarding [Tyrone] Gaines' [sic] admission ... to the admission of an out-of-court confession by a non-testifying defendant being jointly tried.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 646 So. 2d 925 - State v. Butler

3. “The jury could have reasonably concluded that Rault concocted this version of the crime to hide his own guilt”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Guirlando