Tillman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the trial court has the discretion to grant a severance if it is necessary to promote a fair determination of the defendant's guilt or innocence”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Strahan v. State · Stevens v. State

2. “(a) General Rule. For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from him or established by public record during cross-examination but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which he was convicted, and the court determines that the probative value of admitting this evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect on a party or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 624 So. 2d 1313 - Bogard v. State

3. “the testimony of one co-defendant tends to exculpate that defendant at the expense of the other defendant and whether the balance of the evidence introduced at trial tends to go more to the guilt of one defendant rather than the other.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 729 So. 2d 197 - Walker v. State