State v. Fussell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I'm also gonna[sic] order you to pay all restitution involved with respect to - - if there is any - - I order you to pay for any and all medical counseling and health expenses incurred by the victim or her family, as a consequence of your conviction for these offenses. That's also gonna[sic] be - - it's an indetermined amount, it's just gonna be generally made in the judgment. I don't know what it's gonna be. I don't even know if the State's gonna[sic] make an application for that. .... And I've already ordered you to pay for any and all medical counseling or other health expenses incurred by the victim or her family as a consequence of your commission of those particular offenses in that case.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Loyd · 943 So. 2d 559 - State v. Rideau

2. “A reading of [the statute] convinces us it is ambiguous as to what constitutes an allowable unit of prosecution. Therefore, . . . this ambiguity must be resolved in favor of lenity and the [d]efendant's multiple convictions for possession of pornography should be reduced to a single conviction[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Fussell · Commonwealth v. Davidson

3. “[t]he intentional possession, sale, distribution, or possession with intent to sell or distribute any photographs, films, videotapes, or other visual reproductions of any sexual performance involving a child under the age of seventeen.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Fussell · 962 So. 2d 459 - State v. Horton