896 So. 2d 900 - State v. Blanco’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “so offends decency or a sense of justice”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. State · 937 So. 2d 300 - Davis v. State

2. “(1) A law enforcement officer, a person engaged in cooperation with a law enforcement officer, or a person acting as an agent of a law enforcement officer perpetrates an "entrapment if, for the purpose of obtaining evidence of the commission of a crime, he or she induces or encourages and,' as a direct result, causes another person to engage in conduct constituting such crime by employing methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such crime will be committed by a person other than one who is ready to commit it.. (2) A person prosecuted for a crime shall be acquitted if the person proves by a preponderance of the evidence that his or her criminal conduct occurred as a result of an entrapment. The issue of entrapment shall be tried by the trier of fact.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 182 So. 3d 812 - State of Florida v. Jamal Rashad Laing · 17 So. 3d 748 - Hernandez v. State

3. “[b]ecause the legislature cannot abrogate an accused's due process rights, [statutory limitations on the defense of entrapment are] inapplicable whenever a judge determines as a matter of law that law enforcement personnel have violated an accused's due process rights”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Campbell v. State