State v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Reddish (2004), State v. Brimage (1998)
60 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bruton v. United States · Brady v. United States · Lego v. Twomey · Bibby v. United States
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court should disturb the sentence imposed by the trial court only in situations where the sentencing guidelines were not followed, the aggravating and mitigating factors applied by the trial court are not supported by the evidence, or applying the guidelines renders a particular sentence clearly unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is not whether a reviewing court would have reached a different conclusion on what an appropriate sentence should be; it is rather whether, on the basis of the evidence, no reasonable sentencing court could have imposed the sentence under review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“evidence and inferences to be drawn from the evidence were sufficient for the jury to determine that the confession was trustworthy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Simon
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.