601 So. 2d 1190 - Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The entire focus of the statute is not on the present offense, but on the criminal offender's prior record. Provided the offender is charged with an offense punishable by more than a year in prison, that offender remains subject to habitualization if the other terms of the statute are met; and this is true even if the present offense is not itself violent. There is nothing irrational about this process. The State is entirely justified in enhancing an offender's present penalty for a nonviolent crime based on an extensive or violent criminal history.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 609 So. 2d 1295 - Tillman v. State

2. “previously been convicted of a felony or an attempt or conspiracy to commit a felony and one or more of such convictions was for”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 609 So. 2d 1295 - Tillman v. State

3. “In gauging a statute's rationality, the question is whether there is any conceivable, plausible reason why it reads as it does”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 715 So. 2d 1012 - Ladd v. State