Regan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “not compel an abridgement of the finality of judgments. To allow them that impact would ... destroy the stability of the law, render punishments uncertain and therefore ineffectual, and burden the judicial machinery of our state, fiscally and intellectually, beyond any tolerable limit.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Curtis v. State · 812 So. 2d 452 - Wilson v. State

2. “because the rule contemplates a fact in the sense of evidence which is anything which tends to prove or disprove a material fact.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 938 So. 2d 507 - Coppola v. State · 795 So. 2d 258 - Coppola v. State

3. “in the law that warrant retroactive application under Witt from those which, in contradistinction, are mere”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Curtis v. State · 812 So. 2d 452 - Wilson v. State