610 So. 2d 1148 - Box v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is now well settled that when anything transpires during the trial that would tend to prejudice the rights of defendant, he cannot wait and take his chances with the jury on a favorable verdict and then obtain a reversal of the cause in this Court because of such error, but he must ask the trial court for a mistrial upon the happening of such occurrence when the same is of such nature as would entitle him to a mistrial.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 913 So. 2d 306 - Roche v. State · 684 So. 2d 1179 - Williams v. State

2. “When a defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial is at issue, the balancing test set out in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514 , 92 S.Ct. 2182 , 33 L.Ed.2d 101 (1972), is applicable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 888 So. 2d 1178 - Crimm v. State · 646 So. 2d 1275 - State v. Magnusen

3. “On the issue of venue change, [the] Court will not disturb the ruling of the lower court where the sound discretion of the trial judge in denying change of venue was not abused.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burrell v. State · Hickson v. State