484 So. 2d 1324 - Brown 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) A law enforcement officer, a person engaged in cooperation with a law enforcement officer, or a person acting as an agent of a law enforcement officer perpetrates an entrapment if, for the purpose of obtaining evidence of the commission of a crime, he induces or encourages and, as a direct result, causes another person to engage in conduct constituting such crime by employing methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such crime will be committed by a person other than one who is ready to commit it. (2) A person prosecuted for a crime shall be acquitted if he proves by a preponderance of the evidence that his criminal conduct occurred as a result of an entrapment. The issue of entrapment shall be tried by the trier of fact.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Moore · State v. Konces

2. “prosecution of a defendant may be barred where the government's involvement in the criminal enterprise `is so extensive that it may be characterized as”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Gonzalez v. State · 590 So. 2d 442 - Simmons v. State

3. “the objective test [for entrapment] parallels a due process analysis”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 495 So. 2d 912 - State v. Carda