State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bowen · 833 So. 2d 396 - State v. Conner

2. “[T]he right of confrontation is not so unlimited as to require the trial court to permit a defendant on cross-examination of a State witness to make any and all inquiries of whatever type. The inquiry must be relevant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bowen · 833 So. 2d 396 - State v. Conner

3. “Failure to make or file a motion to reconsider sentence or to include a specific ground upon which a motion to reconsider sentence may be based, including a claim of excessiveness, shall preclude the state or the defendant from raising an objection to the sentence or from urging any ground not raised in the motion on appeal or review.”

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