784 So. 2d 591 - Schimele v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`Mentally defective' means a mental disease or defect which renders a person temporarily or permanently incapable of appraising the nature of his or her conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 939 So. 2d 146 - Hudson v. State

2. “He looked like a retarded man; his gait, his physical appearance and, above all, his voice, [immediately signaled that he was] a retarded person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 939 So. 2d 146 - Hudson v. State

3. “on the date of the offenses the victim was not able to give a knowing, voluntary, intelligent consent to having sexual relations with defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 939 So. 2d 146 - Hudson v. State