816 So. 2d 1272 - State v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]ny person who, after having been convicted within this state of a felony... thereafter commits any subsequent felony within this state, upon conviction of said felony, shall be punished as [specified in the habitual offender statute] ....”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson · 921 So. 2d 226 - State v. Qualls

2. “shall not be applicable in cases where more than ten years have elapsed since the expiration of the maximum sentence or sentences of the previous conviction or convictions . . . and the time of the commission of the last felony for which he has been convicted.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Woods · State v. Cummings

3. “such unreasonable technicality as to defeat the purpose of all rules of statutory construction, which purpose is to ascertain and enforce the true meaning and intent of the statute.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 879 So. 2d 1276 - State v. Brown · 893 So. 2d 7 - State v. Williams