Veach v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[the waiver] must be knowing, intelligent and manifest on the record. Without such a waiver, it is reversible error for a trial court to impose adult sanctions upon a juvenile without making the required findings * * *." [c.o.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Griffith v. State

2. “[w]hile a juvenile can waive his right to findings under section 39.059(7)(c)(1-6) before being sentenced as an adult, Rhoden , that waiver must be knowing, intelligent and manifest on the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 636 So. 2d 555 - Berry v. State

3. “committing a lewd and lascivious act in the presence of, and on, a child, and sexual battery on a child less than 12 years of age, committed when he was 17.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Griffith v. State