520 So. 2d 200 - Hewlett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 13 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[a]n indictment must . . . apprise the accused not only of the nature of the offense, but also of the particular act or means by which it was committed.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hatcher v. State · Dixon v. State

2. “"(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule of evidence, a child victim of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation, *Page 445 shall be considered a competent witness and shall be allowed to testify without prior qualification in any judicial proceeding. The trier of fact shall be permitted to determine the weight and credibility to be given to the testimony. The court may also allow leading questions of such child witnesses in the interest of justice."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 545 So. 2d 224 - Moates v. State · 611 So. 2d 443 - Long v. State

3. “Having been apprised of the crime he was charged with committing and the means [i.e., strangulation] by which he committed it, the appellant was not misled, nor was his ability to defend himself hampered, by the indictment's failure to set out the specific instruments by which he carried out the beating.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 792 So. 2d 1161 - Lucas v. State · 596 So. 2d 16 - Huff v. State