786 So. 2d 532 - Mills v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 33 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he plain language of Apprendi indicates that the case is not intended to apply to capital schemes.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Saylor v. State · Butler v. State

2. “[nothing] more than an application of our long-standing Tedder analysis.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marshall v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections · Washington v. State

3. ““A person who has been convicted of a capital felony shall be punished by life imprisonment and shall be required to serve no less than 25 years before becoming eligible for parole unless the proceeding held to determine sentence ... results in finding by the court that such person shall be punished by death, and in the latter event such person shall be punished by death.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bottoson v. Moore · Borchardt v. State