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

1. “jurors are representatives of the community in one sense, but they are not to vote in a representative capacity.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 986 So. 2d 270 - Brown v. State · 803 So. 2d 1229 - Triggs v. State

2. “[s]end a message to these older, more mature, criminals, We are not going to let you ruin young people's lives like you have ruined these three people's lives, and all these lives you endangered in the process.'”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 986 So. 2d 270 - Brown v. State · 811 So. 2d 243 - Trull v. State

3. “`if the argument is so `inflammatory' that the trial judge should have objected on his own motion the point may be considered.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 986 So. 2d 270 - Brown v. State · 811 So. 2d 243 - Trull v. State