Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. Every person who has previously pled guilty or been found guilty on two separate occasions of a stealing-related offense where such offenses occurred within ten years of the date of occurrence of the present offense and where the person received and served a sentence of ten days or more on such previous offense and who subsequently pleads guilty or is found guilty of a stealing-related offense is guilty of a class D felony and shall be punished accordingly-”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Smith

2. “after” sentencing counts as an additional prison commitment. Therefore, under the rule of lenity, which gives a criminal defendant the benefit of a lesser penalty when there is ambiguity in the statute allowing for more than one interpretation, Mr. Ridinger is entitled to an interpretation that an offender can only have one prison commitment associated with each conviction, regardless of the number of times the DOC actually receives him”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ridinger v. Missouri Board of Probation & Parole

3. “The trial court's findings and conclusions are clearly erroneous only if, after a review of the record, the appellate court is left with the definite and firm impression that a mistake has been made,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Philyow v. State