708 So. 2d 661 - State v. Meyers’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. “[t]he statute calls for the trial court to impose sentence as a violent career criminal unless `the court finds ... that it is not necessary for the protection of the public...'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harris · 849 So. 2d 449 - Harris v. State

2. “To clarify, when the state attorney pursues a violent career criminal sanction against a defendant, the trial court has two choices: it can Gortize the defendant and sentence him in compliance with the mandatory minimum provision of the statute, or it can determine that a violent career criminal classification is not necessary for the protection of the public and not be bound by the mandatory provision of the section. The statute is drawn in such a way that the trial judge need only find that the defendant is not a danger to the community when the judge decides to sentence the defendant outside the mandatory sentencing provision of this section.”

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