561 So. 2d 1341 - Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “entered a convenience store and approached the clerk with an object covered by a rag and stated that he had a `.22' and demanded that she give him the store's money. The clerk never saw the object within the rag and the state conceded that a `.22' was never found.”

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

2. “`Weapon' means any dirk, metallic knuckles, slungshot, billie, tear gas gun, chemical weapon or device, or other deadly weapon except a firearm or a common pocketknife.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 679 So. 2d 792 - Blanco v. State