716 So. 2d 1104 - Hooker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]ny person who is present at the commission of a criminal offense and aids, counsels, or encourages another in the commission of that offense is an 'aider and abettor' and is equally guilty with the principal offender.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Joel Jones v. State of Mississippi · 726 So. 2d 274 - Edwards v. State

2. “Ordinarily, trial judges have broad discretion in determining how long trials last on any given day.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 913 So. 2d 198 - Walker v. State · 912 So. 2d 730 - Hodges v. State

3. “"Any person who is present at the commission of a criminal offense and aids, counsels, or encourages another in the commission of that offense is an `aider and abettor' and is equally guilty with the principal offender".... "Aiding and abetting is defined to be `the offense committed by those persons who, although not the direct perpetrators of a crime, are yet present at its commission, doing some act to render aid to the actual perpetrator'.... And such aiding and abetting may be manifested by acts, words, signs, motions, or any conduct which unmistakably evinces a design to encourage, incite or approve of the crime, or even by being present, with the intention of giving assistance, if necessary, though such assistance may not be called into requisition."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 757 So. 2d 1022 - Sanders v. State