Geary 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. “physical injury or death suffered by a person as a direct result of the primary offense, or any additional offense for which an offender is convicted and which is pending before the court for sentencing at the time of the primary offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 885 So. 2d 475 - Chapman v. State

2. “whether the victim's injury was a direct result of the defendant's crimes”

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

3. “death suffered by a person as a direct result of the primary offense,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 869 So. 2d 45 - Sims v. State