Barnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is well settled that `where the evidence is inconclusive or conflicting, the failure of the trial judge to provide a charge which lays down standards for the jury to follow under varying permissible views of the evidence constitutes reversible error.' Holley v. Kelley, Fla. 1957, 91 So.2d 862, 864 , and cases cited. Nor is there any legal principle more firmly established in our system of jurisprudence than that, which makes the jury the sole arbiter of the credibility of the witnesses (except where contrary to demonstrable physical facts) including the reasonableness, probability and credibility of the testimony of the defendant. Cf. Tidwell v. State, 143 Fla. 397 , 196 So. 837 . * * * * * * Regardless of how improbable the defendant's testimony was, it certainly was not demonstrably false, and as our Supreme Court did in the Barnes case, we must hold that the trial Court erred in refusing a self-defense instruction."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parrish v. State · 881 So. 2d 1087 - Chamberlain v. State