921 So. 2d 579 - Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 28 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that procedures for administering the lethal injection as attested do not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rutherford v. Crist · 969 So. 2d 318 - Schwab v. State

2. “does not assert that providing an inmate with "`no less than two' grams" of sodium pentothal, as is Florida's procedure, is not sufficient to render the inmate unconscious. Nor does it provide evidence that an adequate amount of sodium pentothal is not being administered in Florida, or that the manner in which this drug is administered in Florida prevents it from having its desired effect.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 969 So. 2d 326 - Lightbourne v. McCollum · 945 So. 2d 1136 - Diaz v. State

3. “whose chronological age is below eighteen”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 995 So. 2d 933 - Evans v. State · 983 So. 2d 505 - Bevel v. State