49 So. 2d 332 - Cornelius v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 71 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No judgment shall be reversed unless the appellate court after an examination of all the appeal papers is of the opinion that error was committed which injuriously affected the substantial rights of the appellant. It shall not be presumed that error injuriously affected the substantial rights of the appellant.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. State · 222 So. 2d 769 - Mahone v. State

2. “"In determining whether the error of which complaint is made was harmful or prejudicial, we must decide upon examination of all the evidence whether the result would have been different had the improper evidence been excluded. The evidence in this case `leaves no room for reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt' of manslaughter and the admission of the rebuttal testimony with which the appellant finds fault did not constitute harmful or prejudicial error. We find from the evidence that the appellant received a fair and impartial trial and conclude from the jury's verdict of guilty of manslaughter, when it reasonably could have found a verdict of guilt of a higher degree of homicide, that the jury was not in fact prejudiced against the appellant."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Special v. Baux · 223 So. 2d 68 - Coppolino v. State

3. “" * * * it does not follow that the error was harmful or prejudicial. ‡ ‡ *”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. State · 223 So. 2d 68 - Coppolino v. State