996 So. 2d 642 - State v. Durham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A right of privacy in traditional Fourth Amendment terms is fundamentally incompatible with the close and continual surveillance of inmates and their cells required to ensure institutional security and internal order. We are satisfied that society would insist that the prisoner’s expectation of privacy always yield to what must be considered the paramount interest in institutional security.... 7”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 43 So. 3d 253 - State v. Favors

2. “In the instant case, when defendant’s crime and punishment are viewed in light of the harm done to society by property crimes involving the disregard for the sanctity of people’s homes, the nine-year sentence does not shock the sense of justice. This hard labor term is not grossly disproportionate to defendant’s offense nor is it a purposeless and needless infliction of pain and suffering.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 48 So. 3d 1218 - State v. Jacobs