State v. Trigueros’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is your duty to accept the law as given by the Court. Under your oaths, the oaths that you have taken, you are restricted in considering evidence of other crimes or past actions by the defendant only for the purpose of deciding whether or not the defendant had a particular sexual desire for the victim and to consider the presence or absence of any such desire as a factor in determining whether defendant committed the crimes of which he is charged. That is aggravated rape, of this victim, [victim no. 1] occurring on or about February 28, 1984....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 535 So. 2d 861 - State v. Baker

2. “" Prieur does not, as the defendant contends, require a pre-trial evidentiary hearing as to whether extraneous other-crime admissability be admitted. It only requires that, before such evidence is introduced the trial court must determine, on the basis of the showing requisite for it to do so at a hearing outside the presence of the jury, that the extraneous acts are probative of a real issue and that their probative value exceeds their prejudicial effect."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 82 - State v. Moore

3. “an irregularity or error cannot be availed of after verdict unless it was objected to at the time of occurrence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 82 - State v. Moore