461 So. 2d 894 - Walton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A sheriff or other officer acting as sheriff, his deputy or any constable, acting within their respective counties, any marshal, deputy marshal or policeman of any incorporated city or town within the limits of the county or any highway patrolman or state trooper may stop any person abroad in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed or is about to commit a felony or other public offense and may demand of him his name, address and an explanation of his actions.””

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

2. “"In all cases when it is shown that a criminal defendant has been previously convicted of any felony and after such conviction has committed another felony, he must be punished as follows: " (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 555 So. 2d 784 - Gibson v. State

3. “all that is required to set the Habitual Felony Offender Act into motion is a previous felony conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 555 So. 2d 784 - Gibson v. State