766 So. 2d 795 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the exculpatory nature and value of the evidence must have been (1) apparent before the evidence was destroyed and (2) of such a nature that the defendant could not obtain comparable evidence by other reasonable means.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. James Wesley Scott v. State of Mississippi · 822 So. 2d 984 - Nichols v. State

2. “The State's duty to preserve evidence is `limited to evidence that might be expected to play a significant role in the suspect's defense.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 829 So. 2d 676 - Clay v. State · 962 So. 2d 649 - Jackson v. State

3. “The trial court has broad discretion in allowing or disallowing redirect examination of witnesses. When the defense attorney inquires into a subject on cross-examination of the State's witnesses, the prosecutor on rebuttal is unquestionably entitled to elaborate on the matter.... Because these matters were all brought out on cross-examination, we find the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing redirect examination on the matters.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 875 So. 2d 261 - Alexander v. State