784 So. 2d 148 - Baldwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[E]ven when the trial court determines under Rule 403 that prejudice substantially outweighs the probative value of particular evidence, it remains within the court’s discretion to determine whether to exclude the evidence, since Rule 403 does not mandate such an exclusion but rather states that the evidence may be excluded .... Our task as an appellate court reviewing a Rule 403 determination is not to engage anew in the Rule 403 balancing process. Rather, [the appellate court] must simply determine whether the trial court abused its discretion in weighing the factors and admitting or excluding the evidence.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cox v. State · Stevenson v. State

2. “"It is presumed that the jury follows the instructions of the trial court." We have repeatedly held that where the trial court sustains an objection to the inadmissible testimony of a witness and instructs the jury to disregard same, prejudicial error does not result from that improper testimony. "[W]here an objection to such impermissible testimony is sustained and the jury is admonished by the trial court to disregard the statement, this Court has repeatedly held that refusal to grant a mistrial is proper."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stewart v. State · 854 So. 2d 17 - Knight v. State

3. “`Great deference' has been defined in the Batson context as insulating from appellate reversal any trial findings which are not clearly erroneous.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 944 So. 2d 18 - Mingo v. State · 811 So. 2d 471 - Montgomery v. State