891 So. 2d 813 - Young v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he instructions are to be read together as a whole, with no one instruction to be read alone or taken out of context. A defendant is entitled to have jury instructions given which present his theory of the case. However, the trial judge may also properly refuse the instructions if he finds them to incorrectly state the law or to repeat a theory fairly covered in another instruction or to be without proper foundation in the evidence of the case.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 936 So. 2d 400 - Weil v. State · 66 So. 3d 174 - Pitts v. State

2. “(1) the interest in preventing oppressive pre-trial incarceration; (2) the interest in minimizing anxiety and concern of the accused; and (3) the interest in limiting the possibility the defense will be impaired.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 911 So. 2d 644 - Amos v. State · 172 So. 3d 1242 - Trevor Hoskins v. State of Mississippi

3. “consistent with the defendant's guilt is accepted as true together with any reasonable inferences that may be drawn from that evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 990 So. 2d 206 - Colburn v. State · 993 So. 2d 400 - Simpson v. State