948 So. 2d 199 - State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “(1) In addition to any sentence imposed under Subsection D, the court shall, after determining the financial resources and future ability of the offender to pay, require the offender, if able, to pay |7the victim’s reasonable costs of counseling that result from the offense. [Emphasis added.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 So. 3d 1214 - State v. Benoit · 78 So. 3d 860 - State v. Perkins

2. “A. Aggravated incest is the engaging in any prohibited act enumerated in Subsection B with a person who is under eighteen years of age and who is known to the offender to be related to the offender as any of the following biological, step, or adoptive relatives: child.... B. The following are prohibited acts under this Section: (1) Sexual intercourse, sexual battery, second degree sexual battery, carnal knowledge of a juvenile, indecent behavior with juveniles, pornography involving juveniles, molestation of a juvenile, crime against nature, cruelty to juveniles, parent enticing a child into prostitution, or any other involvement of a child in sexual activity constituting a crime under the laws of this state. | ¾⅝(2) Any lewd fondling or touching of the person of either the child or the offender, done or submitted to with the intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desires of either the child, the offender, or both.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. E.J.M.

3. “shall inform [defendant] of the allegation contained in the [multiple offender bill of] information and of his right to be tried as to the truth thereof according to law and shall require the offender to say whether the allegations are true.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bourgeois