Potts v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'used to compel an official to perform lawful duties,'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rosado v. State · 963 So. 2d 359 - Harrell v. State

2. ““Mandamus is the appropriate remedy since it is used to compel an official to perform lawful duties. A court-appointed lawyer is an ‘official.’ ” Pearce v. Sheffey, 647 So.2d 333, 333 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994). Thus, Potts is entitled to relief regarding his personal property and transcripts prepared on his behalf at public expense. Apart from such items, Hileman cannot be required to provide other documents that are in the case file to Potts without adequate compensation. See Thompson [v. Unterberger], 577 So.2d [684] at 686 [(Fla. 2d DCA 1991)]; see also Sanford v. Black, 782 So.2d 548 , 549 n. 2 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001) (noting that the client must compensate his specially-appointed public defender for a copy of a lab report that was the attorney’s work product).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 31 So. 3d 946 - Raymond v. State