594 So. 2d 12 - McDavid v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “trial courts are given great discretion in permitting the use of such questions, and unless there has been a manifest abuse of discretion resulting in injury to the complaining party, we will not reverse the decision.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 981 So. 2d 1007 - Brown v. State · 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State

2. “Such evidence, if otherwise admissible, would not be inadmissible simply because it corroborated . . . [the] testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 780 So. 2d 652 - Lawrence v. State

3. “relating, first-hand, relevant acts in [a] criminal offense,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 724 So. 2d 359 - Gatlin v. State