2015 UT App 249 - State v. Gailey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Plain-error review requires looking at a well-settled, three-part test”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.C. v. State · J.C. v. State

2. “(I) [aln error exists; < (if) the error should have been obvious to the trial court; and (Hi) the error is harmful, i.e., absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for the appellant, or phrased different ly, our confidence in the verdict is undermined.”

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

3. “erred by imposing consecutive sentences without considering all of the relevant statutory factors and by failing to give adequate weight to various mitigating factors,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2018 UT App 177 - State v. Samul