State v. Winward’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We review constitutional challenges to a trial court's sentencing decision de novo. "). By definition, of course, a sentencing court's consideration of evidence in violation of a defendant's constitutional rights would amount to an unsustainable exercise of discretion justifying remand. [2] Although these recordings—or a transcript of them—would assist us in determining how false or misleading these statements were, the defendant has not provided this court with them. As we have stated many times before, "The appealing party has the burden to provide this court with a sufficient record to decide his issues on appeal. . . .”

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