763 So. 2d 913 - Taylor 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. “[I]f the instructions announce the law of the case fairly and create no injustice, no reversible error will be found.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hager v. State · 916 So. 2d 584 - Al-Fatah v. State

2. “The Court instructs the jury that to make a killing justifiable on the grounds of self-defense, the danger to the defendant must be either actual, present and urgent, or the defendant must have reasonable grounds to believe that the victim intended to kill the defendant or to do him some great bodily harm, and in addition to this, he must have reasonable grounds to believe that there is imminent danger of such act being accomplished. It is for the jury to determine the reasonableness of the grounds upon which the defendant acts. If you, the jury, unanimously find that the defendant acted in self-defense, then it is your sworn duty to return a verdict in favor of the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Showers v. State

3. “The Court instructs the jury that flight is a circumstance from which guilty knowledge and fear may be inferred. If you believe from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Sirdarious Sheriff, did flee or go into hiding, such flight or hiding is to be considered in connection with all other events in this case. You will determine from all the facts whether such flight or hiding was from a conscious sense of guilt of possession of stolen property or whether it was caused by other things and give it such weight as you think it is entitled to in determining the guilt or innocence of Sirdarious Sheriff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 156 So. 3d 924 - Sirdarious Sheriff v. State of Mississippi