State v. Moore’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. “The fashioning of sentences for offenders who are as young as [the defendant], but who have committed grievous crimes, is among the most difficult tasks facing any court. For a judge charged with this responsibility, there arises a natural and humane concern to attempt to salvage the life of one so young. Competing with this concern, however, is the obligation of the court to protect society from dangerous criminals, to assure that heinous crimes are adequately punished, and to deter such conduct. Although the sentence imposed is undoubtedly stringent for one so young, in view of the evidence before the district court regarding the high likelihood of reoffense by [the defendant] and the limited potential for his rehabilitation, we cannot say that the sentence imposed was excessive under any reasonable view of the facts.”

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