Sanders v. State’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. “[t]he law requires the [resentencing] judge to conduct his own inquiry and to reach his own sentence based upon the evidence before him.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · State v. Chaney

2. ““ ‘I’m certainly impressed by your eloquence and the fact that you’ve made so much of your life. I’m also though, stuck with a handicap that because I was appointed to take Judge Pines’s place and tried to stand in his shoes ... it’s hard for me to sort of second guess what he would or would not do.’ ””

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

3. “not limited by the strict rules of evidence and [wa]s invested with wide discretion in determining the sentence to be imposed within the authorized statutory limits ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 Md. App. 389 - Smallwood v. State