508 So. 2d 449 - State v. Rojas’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. “The state cannot be deemed responsible for its inability to produce a witness where the state learned belatedly of her incarceration in another state and her refusal to testify against the defendants. “There is no showing that the state, either through calculated official ignorance or deliberate intentional activity, was at fault for this failure to know the informant’s whereabouts.” Guzman v State, 498 So.2d 639 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986). Absent such a showing of fault or bad faith, the sanction of dismissal is unwarranted. Id.; State v Mena, 505 So.2d 681 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987). Moreover, the state generally does not have an obligation to produce witnesses for deposition. State v Rodriguez, 483 So.2d 751 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Aronson