White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he rule is that `when a party would seek a reversal because of excluded testimony, he must either place the witness on the stand, ask the questions, and have the answers made of record, or else the witness must be presented, and there must be a specific statement of what the answers or testimony of the witness would be, if allowed, so that the court may see from the record itself whether the offered evidence would be material and of benefit to the merits of the case and whether its exclusion was actually harmful and prejudicial to the offerer.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 781 So. 2d 114 - Sanders v. State · 30 So. 3d 320 - Abernathy v. State

2. “1. The opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime. 2. The witness's degree of attention. 3. The accuracy of the witness's prior description of the criminal. 4. The level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation. 5. Length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State

3. “the testimony of a single witness whose testimony is not unreasonable on its face, and whose credibility is not successfully impeached, will sustain a conviction although there may be more than one witness testifying in opposition to such witness....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 786 So. 2d 426 - Bosarge v. State