Roberson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that where the defendant or the defendant's witnesses are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the [S]tate, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. State

2. “[f]ailure to offer a timely objection to an instruction at trial constitutes a waiver of the issue on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 873 So. 2d 155 - Steen v. State