592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

249 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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is elementary that a party seeking reversal of the judgment of a trial court must present this Court with a record adequate to show that an error of reversible proportions has been committed and that the point has been procedurally preserved.”

   87 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adkins v. Sanders · Tameka Smith v. State of Mississippi

2. “undeveloped assertions that the requested assistance would be beneficial....”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNeill v. State · 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State

3. “As to Count 4 of the indictment charging the capital murder of Andrew Odutola Kuyoro, Jr., if you believe from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence . .. the Defendant ... was engaged in or attempting to engage in the felonious abuse and/or felonious battery of Andrew ... and if you further believe from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that on that date, the Defendant ... did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder Andrew ... while so engaged or attempting to engage in the felonious abuse and/or felonious battery of said child, then it is your sworn duty to find the Defendant ... guilty of capital murder as charged in Count 4 of this indictment.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Jackson v. State · 684 So. 2d 643 - Davis v. State