553 So. 2d 685 - Finch v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I charge you, members of the jury, that, if presence at the time and place a crime is committed, in conjunction with other facts and circumstances, tends to connect the accused with the commission of the crime, then you, as the jury, may find the defendant guilty.” “I charge you, members of the jury, that where other circumstantial evidence is sufficiently probative, proximity to contraband coupled with inferred knowledge of its presence will support a finding of guilty on such charge.””

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

2. “[W]hen the presence of the accused at the scene is established and evidence of his knowledge of the presence of the prohibited substance is shown, along with any other incriminating evidence, the issue of the defendant's guilt should be submitted to the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 592 So. 2d 642 - Menefee v. State

3. “in such a manner and to such an extent that reasonable inferences could be drawn that [she] had knowledge of the cocaine's existence and whereabouts, that she had potential control over it, and that she had the necessary intent to exercise dominion over it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 568 So. 2d 377 - Beggs v. State