McGuire v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “This rule is intended to give the parties a meaningful opportunity to correct sentencing errors in the trial court rather than in the appellate court. This process allows an error to be corrected faster and earlier, and without the need for a published opinion reversing the trial judge's original error. As demonstrated by this case, it sometimes eliminates the need for an appeal.”

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

2. “We hold that the trial court has the authority to extend the sixty (60) day period set forth in Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(b), upon a showing of good cause as long as the court acts within the sixty days to extend the time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Davis v. State

3. “This automatic denial of the motion allows the defendant to preserve the alleged sentencing error for appellate review and return to the appellate court in less than ninety days when a trial judge does not take action on the motion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 793 So. 2d 117 - Jackson v. State