748 So. 2d 970 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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97 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a suspected person in any manner attempts to escape or evade a threatened prosecution by flight, concealment, resistance to lawful arrest, or other indications after the fact of a desire to evade prosecution, such fact is admissible, being relevant to the consciousness of guilt which may be inferred from such circumstance.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Penalver v. State · 846 So. 2d 502 - Menna v. State

2. “must be so prejudicial as to taint the jury's recommended sentence.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Peterka v. State · 794 So. 2d 579 - Jones v. Moore

3. “(1) did the police use an unnecessarily suggestive procedure to obtain the out-of-court identification; (2) and if so, considering all the circumstances, did the suggestive procedure give rise to a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 817 So. 2d 741 - Dennis v. State · 990 So. 2d 565 - Pierre v. State