State v. Pigford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... the defendant would never have known what he was carrying.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 935 So. 2d 261 - State v. Pigford · 922 So. 2d 517 - State v. Pigford

2. “it was actually on the top of the load of grapes, two or three feet above his head, and was discoverable only by reaching over with his hand and feeling around. The defendant got Deputy Williams to admit that it was possible that someone loading the hauler could have placed the marijuana into the truck while the defendant was sorting out the paperwork, and someone else could have taken the marijuana off at the other end, and”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 935 So. 2d 261 - State v. Pigford

3. “[t]o convict a driver only on the evidence that he had access to the cargo area creates a dangerous precedent for the many drivers involved in commercial transportation of goods that happen to have access to the cargo they are carrying.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 922 So. 2d 517 - State v. Pigford