745 So. 2d 912 - Rutledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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. “' "Where the record is silent on appeal, it will be presumed that what ought to have been done was not only done, but rightly done.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Living v. State · 940 So. 2d 312 - Tarver v. State

2. “[W]here, as here, an ordinary citizen informs the police that he has seen evidence of a crime or that someone has admitted involvement in a crime to him, he is presumed to be reliable, and an officer is not required [when requesting a search warrant] to supply the magistrate with information explaining *Page 8 why he believes the citizen-informant to be reliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 72 So. 3d 707 - T.A.P. v. State of Alabama.

3. “"Matter. Any book, magazine, newspaper or printed — or other printed material or any picture, photography, motion picture or electrical or electronic reproduction or any other articles or materials that either are, or contain a photographic or other visual reproduction of a live act, performance or events."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Weddington