462 So. 2d 1175 - Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is the genius of our jury system that twelve impartial persons, individually, applying a subjective standard, come to a common conclusion of defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. This fundamental principle becomes subverted if a jury member is pressured to defer to the opinion of his peers, for unanimity is made a sham thereby. An objective standard is in effect substituted for the subjective, by virtue of the implication that the majority opinion is reasonable, and the minority, unreasonable. Here the trial court may have led one or more jurors to capitulate, against his or her conscientious judgment, because the court made it appear that unless a verdict was reached great waste would occur and the court's confidence in the jury's common sense would somehow have been betrayed."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 472 - Warren v. State · 681 So. 2d 767 - Palmer v. State

2. “The jurors should not have been required, as the trial judge told them, to consider the public moneys expended on the trial and to melt their `minds and personalities into one to reach a verdict.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 681 So. 2d 767 - Palmer v. State