Winston v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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

1. “If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact. to understand the evidence or, to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”

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

2. “there is little distinction between a scent lineup and a situation where a dog is required to track an individual's scent over an area traversed by multiple persons.”

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

3. “olfactory sense of the American bloodhound is legendary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 915 So. 2d 239 - McCray v. State