730 So. 2d 728 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]ll of the victim's property was taken as a part of the same criminal transaction or episode, without any temporal or geographic break”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 808 So. 2d 201 - Cruller v. State · 740 So. 2d 587 - Sessler v. State

2. “[T]he evidence established that the victim had parked her vehicle in the lot of a store, and then went into the store to do some shopping. After she had finished shopping, she returned to her vehicle, pushing a cart. She opened the front passenger door and placed her purchases and her purse on the seat. As she was returning the cart, several young males, including appellant, approached her. One of them pointed a gun at the victim and told her to give them her keys and money. Appellant told the victim that the other male would shoot if she did not comply. Appellant then took the keys from the victim and gave them to one of the others. Then all of the young males, including appellant, got into the vehicle and drove off.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 808 So. 2d 201 - Cruller v. State

3. “Armed carjacking with a firearm is proscribed by section 812.133(2)(a), Florida Statutes (1995).... [A]ll of the elements of that offense are subsumed by the offense of armed robbery with a firearm. § 812.13(2)(a), Fla. Stat. (1995). Moreover, there is nothing in either statute expressly authorizing separate convictions and sentences when both offenses arise out of a single criminal transaction or episode.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 808 So. 2d 201 - Cruller v. State