Tunstall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] doctrine [that] is similar to that of former adjudication. [It] relates entirely to questions of law, and is confined in its operation to subsequent proceedings in the case. Whatever is once established as the controlling legal rule of decision, between the same parties in the same case, continues to be the law of the case, so long as there is a similarity of facts. This principle expresses the practice of courts generally to refuse to reopen what has previously been decided. It is founded on public policy and the interests of orderly and consistent judicial procedure.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 829 So. 2d 29 - Kolberg v. State

2. “Wilson was in fact given specific conditions and terms by the trial judge and was told that he was not to violate any of these conditions. ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 817 So. 2d 598 - Harwell v. State

3. “Tunstall's probation arises from the judicial act of the trial judge in setting a condition upon his suspended sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 817 So. 2d 598 - Harwell v. State