Escobar v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress comes to this Court clothed with a presumption of correctness and, as the reviewing court, we must interpret the evidence and reasonable inferences and deductions derived therefrom in a manner most favorable to sustaining the trial court's ruling.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Glatzmayer · 737 So. 2d 520 - Almeida v. State

2. “The State must show by a preponderance of the evidence that the confession was freely and voluntarily given and that the rights of the accused were knowingly and intelligently waived.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 838 So. 2d 1073 - Murray v. State

3. “police misrepresentation alone does not necessarily render a confession involuntary”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 850 So. 2d 514 - Nelson v. State