760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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293 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 293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “anticipate[d] that the amendments to rule 3.800(b) recently promulgated by this court . . . should eliminate the problem of unpreserved sentencing errors raised on direct appeal because the time in which a defendant can file a motion to correct a sentencing error in the trial court is expanded to the time the first appellate brief is filed.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. State · 850 So. 2d 452 - Brannon v. State

2. “In most cases, a fundamental sentencing error will be one that affects the determination of the length of the sentence such that the interests of justice will not be served if the error remains uncorrected.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. J.C.R. v. State · 70 So. 3d 559 - Cromartie v. State

3. “clearly the class of errors that constitute an `illegal' sentence that can be raised for the first time in a post-conviction motion decades after a sentence becomes final is a narrower class of errors than those termed `fundamental' errors that can be raised on direct appeal even though unpreserved”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 943 So. 2d 253 - Montoya v. State · 766 So. 2d 343 - Hope v. State