523 So. 2d 68 - Nicholson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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80 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “only where there is an absence of substantial credible evidence supporting it.”

   12 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richardson v. State · Gray v. State

2. “[w]hen custody, booking, administrative and security needs have been met, there is but one possible excuse for delay: lack of access to a judge. In assuring this fact, principled policy demands that the judge be considered just as accessible for the defendant's initial appearance as for procuring a search warrant in a felony investigation. The valid (state law) rules in the field read together prohibit law enforcement from taking advantage of the unavailability of a judicial officer to procure evidence or unfair advantage which would likely become inaccessible after initial appearance.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Evans v. State · 585 So. 2d 660 - Willie v. State

3. “an impermissibly suggestive pre-trial identification does not preclude in-court identification by an eyewitness who viewed the suspect at the procedure unless: (1) from the totality of the circumstances surrounding it, (2) the identification was so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brooks v. State · 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State