Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Crime conceived in hell will not have any angels as witnesses. And, ladies and gentleman, as true as that statement is, Grand Park is hell. And that man right there is the devil.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bailey v. State · 941 So. 2d 1109 - Hannon v. State

2. “is not intended to be a procedure authorizing a fishing expedition for records unrelated to a colorable claim for postconviction relief.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 236 So. 3d 981 - Eric Scott Branch v. State of Florida & SC18-218 Eric Scott Branch v. Julie L. Jones, etc. · 904 So. 2d 400 - Johnson v. State

3. “overly broad, of questionable relevance, and unlikely to lead to discoverable evidence”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Overton v. State · 921 So. 2d 579 - Hill v. State