831 So. 2d 143 - King v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 115 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f a precedent of this Court has direct application in a case, yet appears to rest on reasons rejected in some other line of decisions, the [other court] should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 886 So. 2d 915 - Windom v. State · 904 So. 2d 400 - Johnson v. State

2. “the United States Supreme Court repeatedly has reviewed and upheld Florida's capital sentencing statute over the past quarter of a century.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 965 So. 2d 79 - Franklin v. State · 970 So. 2d 806 - Frances v. State

3. “I find no legal basis to stay the execution in this case. We have finally adjudicated this case. No United States constitutional law applicable to the Florida capital sentencing statute has been held by the Supreme Court of the United States to have changed. To the contrary, the Supreme Court has removed any obstacle for this execution to occur. We are bound by their application of federal constitutional law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Bottoson v. Moore