Rozier v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) Whoever, in the course of one criminal transaction or episode, commits an act or acts which constitute one or more separate criminal offenses, ... shall be sentenced separately for each criminal offense; ... . For the purposes of this subsection, offenses are separate if each offense requires proof of an element that the other does not, without regard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at trial. (b) ... Exceptions to this rule of construction are: * * * * * . Offenses which are lesser offenses the statutory elements of which are subsumed by the greater offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 661 So. 2d 93 - Turner v. State

2. “It is unlawful ... to introduce into or possess upon the grounds of any county detention facility ... controlled substances as defined in s. 893.02(4)... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 661 So. 2d 93 - Turner v. State

3. “to be in actual or constructive possession”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gibbs v. State