886 So. 2d 952 - Power v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[J]uror interviews are not permissible unless the moving party has made sworn allegations that, if true, would require the court to order a new trial because the alleged error was so fundamental and prejudicial as to vitiate the entire proceeding[].”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 980 So. 2d 460 - Pooler v. State · 975 So. 2d 1090 - Green v. State

2. “A lawyer shall not ... after dismissal of the jury in a case with which the lawyer is connected, initiate communication with or cause another to initiate communication with any juror regarding the trial except to determine whether the verdict may be subject to legal challenge; provided, a lawyer may not interview jurors for this purpose unless the lawyer has reason to believe that grounds for such challenge may exist; and provided further, before conducting any such interview the lawyer must file in the cause a notice of intention to interview setting forth the name of the juror ... to be interviewed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 995 So. 2d 933 - Evans v. State · 922 So. 2d 386 - Ramirez v. State

3. “[c]laims in successive motions may be denied without an evidentiary hearing `[i]f the motion, files, and records in the case conclusively show that the movant is entitled to no relief.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Power v. State