Donahoo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A reversal will not be predicated upon the refusal of a requested charge where the import and intent of the defendant's requested charge is covered in the charge given by the trial court, even though the actual language of the request was not embraced within the court's charge.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 686 So. 2d 563 - Read v. State · 794 So. 2d 415 - Evans v. State

2. “' "Where the prosecutor on his own initiative asks the jury to draw an adverse inference from a defendant's silence, Griffin [v. California , 380 U.S. 609 , 85 S.Ct. 1229 , 14 L.Ed.2d 106 (1965)] holds that the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination is violated. But where as in this case the prosecutor's reference to the defendant's opportunity to testify is a fair response to a claim made by defendant or his counsel, we think there is no violation of the privilege. " ' ". . . . " ' " '[The] central purpose of a criminal trial is to decide the factual question of the defendant's guilt or innocence. . . .' To this end it is important that both the defendant and the prosecutor have the opportunity to meet fairly the evidence and arguments of one another. . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Long v. State · 797 So. 2d 1134 - Simmons v. State