Patton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 31 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[P]roportionality review is inherent in this Court's direct appellate review and the issue is considered regardless of whether it is discussed in the opinion or raised by a party. . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Trotter v. State · 965 So. 2d 79 - Franklin v. State

2. “The existence of this prior violent felony aggravator satisfies the mandates of the United States and Florida constitutions. . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 975 So. 2d 1054 - Merck v. State · 940 So. 2d 389 - England v. State

3. “[Although we did not specifically mention other capital cases in our decision on Booker’s direct appeal, we did in fact undertake proportionality review. That review is an inherent aspect of our review of all capital cases. We need not specifically state that we are doing that which we have already determined to be an integral part of our review process.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Krawczuk v. State