Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the defendant was denied due process whereby the trial was fundamentally unfair.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brink v. State · Gray v. State

2. “(i) the private interest that will be affected by the action of the State, (ii) the government interest that will be affected if the safeguard is to be provided, and (iii) the probable value of the additional or substitute procedural safeguards that are sought, and the risk of an erroneous deprivation of the affected interest if those safeguards are not provided.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brink v. State · 847 So. 2d 825 - Townsend v. State

3. “The lustful touching of a child under fourteen is not necessarily a lesser included offense of statutory rape. Lustful touching is, however, a lesser related offense.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 836 So. 2d 779 - Pittman v. State · 998 So. 2d 411 - Branch v. State