584 So. 2d 953 - Meadows v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “" '(1) Relevancy to prove physical capacity, skill, or means to commit the now-charged crime; (2) part of the res gestae or part of a continuous transaction; (3) relevancy to prove scienter or guilty knowledge; (4) relevancy to prove criminal intent; (5) relevancy to prove plan, design, scheme, or system; (6) relevancy to prove motive; (7) relevancy to prove identity; (8) relevancy to rebut special defenses; and (9) relevancy in various particular crimes.' "”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 627 So. 2d 1134 - Howell v. State

2. ““The dispositive issue is whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence sought to be suppressed was gathered ‘by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.’ Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 488 , 83 S.Ct. 407, 417 , 9 L.Ed.2d 441 (1963).””

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

3. “by a preponderance of the evidence that ultimately or inevitably the information would have been discovered by lawful means.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 606 So. 2d 183 - Sheffield v. State