Owens v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Any convict who escapes or attempts to escape from the penitentiary or from any person or guard having him in charge under authority of law, either within or outside the walls of the penitentiary, before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for an additional term of not less than one year.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brantley v. State · 376 So. 2d 821 - Jacques v. State

2. “No proposition of law is more fundamental than the one requiring that the proof at trial must correspond with the material allegations of the indictment.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Randle · Ex Parte Hightower

3. “the custody of a prison guard while working on a road gang twelve miles from `Camp Eight Mile.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 376 So. 2d 821 - Jacques v. State · 380 So. 2d 940 - House v. State