State v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2021
13 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 DEPT. OF GEN. SERV. v. US Mineral Prod. · State v. Lewis · State v. King · State v. Schofield · State v. Sweet
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]t step one, the sentencing court is not required to elucidate all the possible means by which the defendant’s crime may be committed, find which method of commission is worse than the defendant’s or which method is the worst possible way of committing the crime, and then assign the basic sentence according to where the defendant’s conduct falls on that spectrum.... Instead, when the court imposes a basic sentence at or near [the maximum], it does not misapply principle if it finds that the defendant’s conduct is “most serious” as compared to other means of committing the crime within that same range.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We review the sentencing court’s consideration of aggravating and mitigating factors for an abuse of discretion.” State v. Schofield, 2006 ME 101, ¶ 13 , 904 A.2d 409 . “Such abuse may occur when a material factor deserving significant weight is ignored.” Id. (quotation marks omitted). Seamon's own sexual victimization cannot be presumptively deemed a mitigating factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Seamon
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.