808 So. 2d 979 - Bessent v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where there is conflicting testimony, the jury is the judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · 933 So. 2d 1014 - Davis v. State

2. “Harper was not seized or arrested when he discarded the drugs. Harper was not in any form or fashion restrained or stopped at the time he threw down the cocaine, and the cocaine, therefore, was abandoned and not the fruit of an unlawful seizure or arrest ...[.] There was no error in the lower court’s finding that no stop or arrest had occurred at the time the matchbox hit the ground, and there existed no need to find probable cause.”

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

3. “[o]ur supreme court followed the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in California v. Hodari [D.] , 499 U.S. 621 , 111 S.Ct. 1547 , 113 L.Ed.2d 690 (1991), when it held that evidence seized after being abandoned by a suspect is not the fruit of an illegal seizure.”

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