521 So. 2d 663 - State v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Justification can be claimed when the conduct is reasonable discipline of minors by a parent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. CSD · State v. Sedlock

2. “Cruelty to juveniles is the intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect, by anyone over the age of seventeen, of any child under the age of seventeen whereby unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused to said child. Lack of knowledge of the child's age shall not be a defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 817 So. 2d 202 - State v. Schultz

3. “present whenever there is specific intent, and also when the circumstances indicate that the offender, in the ordinary course of human experience, must have adverted to the prescribed criminal consequences as reasonably certain to result from his act or failure to act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Morrison