Tanner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Entrapment" means inducing or leading a person to commit a crime not originally planned by him. You are instructed that where an informer or other agent generally acting in concert with law enforcement authorities, furnishes a defendant with cocaine for the purpose of then arranging a sale of the cocaine by the defendant to an undercover officer, which sale is then consummated, defendant has been entrapped as a matter of law even though predisposition to commit the crime may appear, and notwithstanding that the furnishing of the cocaine is unknown to and contrary to the instructions of the law enforcement authorities.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 756 So. 2d 806 - Robert v. State · 592 So. 2d 24 - Pulliam v. State

2. “[a] defendant is not entrapped—and enjoys no protection from prosecution—when he is already predisposed to commit the crime and when law enforcement officials merely furnish him the occasion or opportunity for doing so.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 969 So. 2d 891 - Brown v. State · 893 So. 2d 1042 - Irby v. State

3. “[o]nce a defendant makes out a prima facie case that he was entrapped ... predisposition becomes a fact of consequence and evidence thereof becomes relevant and, hence, always admissible.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 919 - Tate v. State · 672 So. 2d 1227 - Walls v. State