596 So. 2d 789 - Solomon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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

1. “... I cannot join in the majority's conclusion that these crimes are "clearly and directly connected in an episodic sense," i.e., are part of a single criminal episode. The majority emphasizes that both sales occurred during the course of an ongoing investigation. I fail to see the relevance of that fact. Whether crimes form part of a criminal episode depends on the activities of the defendant, not the activities of the police in investigating the defendant. In this case each sale was a separate and distinct transaction. The two charges did not arise from one continuous sequence of events. [citation omitted] The fact that both sales were to the same undercover officer is hardly enough to distinguish this case from Paul, supra. Similarly, the fact that both sales occurred within a week's time is not enough. [citations omitted]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. State · 693 So. 2d 1133 - Pittman v. State

2. “(a) Joinder of Offenses. Two or more offenses that are triable in the same court may be charged in the same indictment or information in a separate count for each offense, when the offenses, whether felonies or misdemeanors, or both, are based on the same act or transaction or on 2 or more connected acts or transactions.”

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

3. “the error committed was so prejudicial as to vitiate the entire trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 629 So. 2d 249 - Kivett v. State