State v. Church’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “based upon objective information concerning identifiable conduct on the part of the defendant occurring after the time of the original sentencing proceeding.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Church · 2002 WI App 272 - State v. Naydihor

2. “I feel that we are in exactly the same position we were in when Mr. Church sat before me almost four years ago . .. The offense remains just as serious, the character of the defendant has not changed in any way, the protection of the public remains a very serious concern. The only thing that has changed is nearly four years have passed and Mr. Church ... [has today] made his first step towards admitting responsibility and seeking help for his very significant problems. I feel that those four years have been wasted and that to impose the same sentence today would in effect give Mr. Church credit for spending the last four years without acknowledging his offense and without doing anything to obtain treatment.”

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

3. “the reason for vacating all sentences rather than just the one held invalid [is] to give the trial court the opportunity to resentence with a corrected understanding that there was only one valid conviction”

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