817 So. 2d 799 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Discretion is abused only when the judicial action is arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable, which is another way of saying that discretion is abused only where no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the trial court.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCoy v. State · 904 So. 2d 370 - Parker v. State

2. “A trial court has broad discretion in determining the relevance of evidence and such a determination will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 884 So. 2d 57 - Eliakim v. State · 829 So. 2d 873 - Cherry v. Moore

3. “a close similarity of facts, a unique or `fingerprint' type of information”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 970 So. 2d 312 - McDuffie v. State · 884 So. 2d 57 - Eliakim v. State