675 So. 2d 911 - State v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis

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21 state decisions

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

1. “[t]he Juvenile Justice Act vests the juvenile division with exclusive jurisdiction over all proceedings in which a child allegedly violates the law unless ... juvenile jurisdiction is waived.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · Partridge v. Partridge

2. “There is good reason for requiring defendants to register their objections with the trial court. A defendant should not be allowed to subject himself to a court's jurisdiction and defend his case in hope of an acquittal and then, if convicted, challenge the court's jurisdiction on the basis of a defect that could have been easily remedied if it had been brought to the court's attention earlier. Neither the common law nor our statutes favor allowing a defendant to use the resources of the court and then wait until the last minute to unravel the whole proceeding. Sawyer v. State, 94 Fla. 60 , 113 So. 736 (1927). In this case, if the court had realized that respondent had been improperly charged by an indictment, the defect could have been remedied quite easily by the filing of an information under section 39.04(2)(e)4, or the transfer of the case to the juvenile division.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. State · 754 So. 2d 67 - Williams v. State

3. “the juvenile court and the criminal court are both divisions of the circuit court.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 760 So. 2d 162 - Cote v. State · 793 So. 2d 907 - Cote v. State