833 So. 2d 497 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

50 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Positive identification by only one witness is sufficient to support a conviction.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lewis · 917 So. 2d 600 - State v. Weaver

2. “A. The crime of obscenity is the intentional: (1) Exposure of the genitals, pubic hair, anus, vulva, or female breast nipples in any public place or place open to the public view, or in any prison or jail, with the intent of arousing sexual desire or which appeals to prurient interest or is patently offensive. . . . . G. (4) When a violation of Paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of Subsection A of this Section is with or in the presence of an unmarried person under the age of seventeen years, the offender shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than two years nor more than five years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 846 So. 2d 22 - State v. Williams

3. “In today’s society, members of gangs are not regarded as model citizens. There is an inherent connotation that a gang member is involved in criminal activity. The fact that the defendant was a gang member could have, and probably did, create an image of a bad person in the eyes of the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 219 So. 3d 1133 - State v. Hawkins