2003 UT App 214 - State v. Sotolongo’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2020
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Gardner · State v. Helms · State v. Lafferty · State v. Archuleta · United States v. Blackwell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wle will not overturn a sentence unless it exceeds statutory or constitutional limits, the judge failed to consider all the legally relevant factors, or the actions of the judge were so inherently unfair as to constitute abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The sentencing judge has broad discretion in imposing [al sentence within the statutory seope provided by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Post
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.