Cave v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendant personally removed the victim from the convenience store at gun point, placed her in the back seat of the car in which he and a co-defendant were seated, heard her pleas for her life during a fifteen to eighteen minute ride to an isolated area, removed her from the car and turned her over to Bush and Parker who stabbed and then shot her. At some point her panties were wet with urine. The terror she experienced must have been horrible and meets the definition of especially heinous, atrocious and cruel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 919 So. 2d 347 - Perez v. State

2. “There was little reason for the men to kidnap Slater except to kill her at their leisure in isolated surroundings where they would not be surprised or observed; and there was no other reason to kill her—she was not shot accidently or in an escape attempt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parker v. State

3. “of the enormity of the crimes committed in this episode.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cave v. State