State v. Cornell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 93 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A defendant has a constitutional right not to speak with a probation officer for sentencing purposes. Defendant explicitly invoked that right and never retracted it.... Furthermore, under Ariz.R.Crim.P. 26.3(a) and 26.4(a) a defendant may entirely waive the right to have a presentence report prepared. What occurred here was less drastic than that because the probation officer prepared a report with the material available. In addition, the judge already knew a great deal about Defendant's background from trial testimony. This is an appropriate source for sentencing information. Moreover, Defendant's attorney argued on his behalf at the sentencing hearing, giving the judge further perspective favorable to Defendant. Finally, there is no indication that Defendant would have said anything to the probation officer that the court did not already know.”

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

2. “the trial court had both a constitutional and statutory duty to provide [the indigent] with certain essential tools of trial defense”

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

3. “A trial court has broad discretion in managing the conduct of a trial, and has a duty to properly exercise that discretion.”

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