State v. Clements’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “not a vehicle designed to reexamine the facts underlying the case to determine whether a sentence is illegal;”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. PRION · State v. William Franklin Wolfe

2. “[The court may correct an illegal sentence at any time.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. PRION · State v. Randy Lyn McKinney

3. “prohibits imposing more than one enhanced penalty where a person is convicted of two or more substantive crimes that arose out of the same indivisible course of conduct. It does not prohibit charging more than one enhanced penalty even if the crimes charged all arose out of the same indivisible course of conduct. If, in that circumstance, a defendant is convicted of more than one crime for which an enhanced penalty is charged, then at sentencing the court may only impose one enhanced penalty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Peregrina