611 So. 2d 906 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “justify a conviction of burglary, it is necessary not only to show that a person entered a building of another person, but in addition that at the time he did so, he intended to commit a crime therein. The intent to commit a crime therein must co-exist with the physical act of entry.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 656 So. 2d 1186 - Alford v. State · 995 So. 2d 839 - Jenkins v. State

2. “[T]he competency of excited utterances is a matter largely discretionary with our trial courts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 972 So. 2d 656 - Camf v. Jbm · 797 So. 2d 381 - Stokes v. State

3. “Every person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering, in the day or night, the dwelling house of another, in which there shall be, at the time, some human being, with intent to commit some crime therein, either by forcibly bursting or breaking the wall, or an outer door, window or shutter, of a window of such house, or the lock or bolt of such door, or the fastening of such window or shutter, or by breaking in any other manner, or with the assistance of one or more confederates, then present and assisting, or by unlocking an outer door by means of false keys, or by picking the lock thereof, shall be guilty of burglary, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than seven years nor more than fifteen years.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 656 So. 2d 1186 - Alford v. State