Cerda v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “State: And I’ll tell you this. The one thing I will do; and I promise is, I’ll listen to you. You are my voice. You’re my sounding board. You think drug dealers ought to get probation, give it to her, and I’ll deal accordingly. On the other hand, if you believe, as I think this evidence shows, you should respond with strong penitentiary time; and I will respond accordingly. Defense: Judge, I object. I believe that’s way outside the record, improper argument, telling this jury that he’s going to start offering whatever they decide to give in this case. And that’s totally outside the record and way improper argument and I would ask for a mistrial.”

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