490 So. 2d 198 - Sanchez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2019
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Burgess v. State · State v. Hill · Dixon v. State · Griffin v. State · Masters v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[E]ven if the issue were properly preserved, a review of the record clearly demonstrates that the jury intended to find Sanchez guilty of the greater offense. The evidence unquestionably supports a finding of guilt on the greater offense since it was uncontradicted that the amount of cocaine exceeded twenty-eight grams. Additionally, the court’s instructions required the jury to consider guilt on the greater offense first. Having found guilt on the greater offense, it was of course unnecessary for them to proceed any further. Therefore, the verdict on the lesser offense is merely surplusage. Dixon [v. State, 437 N.E.2d 1318 (Ind.1982) ]; State v. Hill, 674 P.2d 96 (Utah 1983); see also People v. Albino, 104 A.D.2d 317 , 478 N.Y.S.2d 908 (App.Div.1984), affirmed, 65 N.Y.2d 843 , 493 N.Y.S.2d 305 , 482 N.E.2d 1221 (1985). Accordingly, the conviction for trafficking in cocaine is affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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