560 So. 2d 1128 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In addition to any penalties heretofore or hereafter provided by law for any person convicted of an unlawful sale of a controlled substance, there is hereby imposed a penalty of five years incarceration in a state corrections facility with no provision for probation if the situs of such unlawful sale was on the campus or within a three-mile radius of the campus boundaries of any public or private school, college, university or other educational institution in this state." (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 589 So. 2d 798 - Smith v. State

2. “an indictment for the unlawful sale of drugs need not contain any reference to the sentence enhancing provisions of Ala. Code 1975 § 20-2-79 (or its successor provision, § 13A-12-250 ), in order for the defendant's sentence to be enhanced under that statute.”

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