799 So. 2d 40 - Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he decision whether to grant a severance depends on whether the severance is necessary to promote a fair determination of the defendant's guilt or innocence.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 893 So. 2d 265 - Scarbough v. State · 942 So. 2d 156 - Sanders v. State

2. “1. The party objecting to the peremptory challenge must first make a prima facie showing that race was the criteria for the exercise of the peremptory challenge. 2. If this initial showing is successful, the party desiring to exercise the challenge has the burden to offer a race-neutral explanation for striking the potential juror. 3. The trial court must then determine whether the objecting party has met their burden to prove there has been purposeful discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges. [18]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flowers v. State · 980 So. 2d 908 - Strickland v. State

3. “Where the testimony of one defendant did not tend to exculpate himself at the expense of another and there does not appear to be a conflict of interest among the co-defendants, severance is not required.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 893 So. 2d 265 - Scarbough v. State · 817 So. 2d 644 - Collins v. State