Taylor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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

1. “[W]here the defendant or the defendant’s witnesses to the homicide are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the state, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · 877 So. 2d 1254 - Lynch v. State

2. “[a]s stated in Weathersby , and many of our subsequent decisions, this rule has no application where the defendant's version is patently unreasonable, or contradicted by physical facts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 942 So. 2d 322 - Shirley v. State · 877 So. 2d 1254 - Lynch v. State

3. “undisturbed unless this Court is convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that, to allow it to stand, would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 883 So. 2d 86 - Hawthorne v. State