177 N.C. App. 17 - State v. Hagans’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
44
cited by 44 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
44 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · State v. Powell · State v. Coffey · State v. Bullard
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a] trial court's weighing of mitigating and aggravating factors will not be disturbed on appeal absent a showing that there was an abuse of discretion.' "). "Abuse of discretion results where the trial court's ruling is manifestly unsupported by reason or is so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court shall consider evidence of aggravating or mitigating factors present in the offense that make aggravated or mitigated sentences appropriate, but the decision to depart from the presumptive range is in the discretion of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]efendant's notion that the [trial] court is obligated to formally find or act on proposed mitigating factors when a presumptive sentence is entered has been repeatedly rejected.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.