Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We know that she knew she was going to be killed, . . . we know when she was stabbed the first time, she didn't become unconscious; she remained conscious and she could feel the pain of the knife going through her body and could feel the pain of the knife as it was twisted and pulled out of her body, and then he did it again. . . . . What weight do you give to the ten, twenty minutes where she was there in that bathroom reflecting back on her life, on the things that she hadn't done that she wished she could, the opportunities that had never been presented to her, on her children that she would never see again, on her mother who loved her so dearly. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 975 So. 2d 1054 - Merck v. State

2. “arguments were not improper because they were based upon facts in evidence — the victim was stabbed twice, she struggled with her assailant, and she remained alive for at least a short period of time after being stabbed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 975 So. 2d 1054 - Merck v. State

3. “Because none of the closing arguments were improper, counsel cannot be deemed ineffective in failing to object to them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 964 So. 2d 1278 - White v. State