Mills v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The plain language of the statute indicates that the legislature enacted section 784.07 in order to increase the penalties for the enumerated crimes of assault, aggravated assault, battery, and aggravated battery for offenders who commit these crimes upon law enforcement officers. At the time the enhancement statute was enacted, the legislature had created the four enumerated offenses in other statutory provisions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 816 So. 2d 680 - Darst v. State

2. “actually creates a separate substantive offense consisting of the elements of aggravated assault plus the added elements that the victim was a law enforcement officer engaged in the lawful performance of his duties and that the defendant knew the victim was a law enforcement officer”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 816 So. 2d 680 - Darst v. State

3. “an enhancement statute in the sense it would not be subject to the double jeopardy bar when combined with another enhancement statute,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 822 So. 2d 1284 - Mills v. State