630 So. 2d 160 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' " ' "The weight and credence given the testimony of the accused as to the issue of self-defense is a question for the jury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Worthington v. State · 682 So. 2d 488 - Weaver v. State

2. “"No party may assign as error the court's giving or failing to give a written instruction, or the giving of an erroneous, misleading, incomplete, or otherwise improper oral charge, unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection."”

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

3. “Even if the evidence of self-defense is undisputed, the credibility of the defendant with respect to the evidence of self-defense is for the jury, and [it] may, in [its] discretion, accept it as true or reject it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 682 So. 2d 488 - Weaver v. State