State v. Windom’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “re-weigh the evidence presented to the district court.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eden v. State (In Re Srba Case No. 39576 Subase No. 37-00864) · State v. Albert A. Ciccone

2. “first, whether the trial court correctly perceived the issue as one of discretion; second, whether the trial court acted within the outer boundaries of its discretion and consistently with the legal standards applicable to the specific choices available to it; and finally, whether the trial court reached its decision by an exercise of reason.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kenny Carl Struhs

3. “[a] crime is less reprehensible—and therefore potentially less deserving of severe retribution—if the criminal has personally mitigating circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Adamcik