637 So. 2d 600 - State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A requested special charge shall be given by the court if it does not require qualification, limitation, or explanation, and if it is wholly correct and pertinent. It need not be given if it is included in the general charge or in another special charge to be given.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 931 So. 2d 432 - State v. Wright · 781 So. 2d 713 - State v. Lowery

2. “A. Aggravated rape is a rape committed... where anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without lawful consent ... because it is committed under any of the following circumstances: 1) When the victim resists the act to the utmost, but whose resistance is overcome by force. 2) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by threats of great and immediate bodily harm, accompanied by apparent power of execution. 3) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act because the offender is armed with a dangerous weapon. D. (1) Whoever commits the crime of aggravated rape shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.”

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

3. “Like the trial court, we find that the gist of the requested charge was sufficiently included in the general charge concerning the state's burden of proof, as well as the portion establishing the presumption of the defendant's innocence. Thus, the jury was fully apprised that, in order to convict, more evidence than the defendant's mere presence at the scene of the crime was necessary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 781 So. 2d 713 - State v. Lowery