State v. DeVan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is our duty to carefully consider whether the punishment is too severe. Where the judgment does not exceed the statutory maximum, it is only where an abuse of the trial court’s discretion is shown that we will interfere. The de termination of whether to sentence a defendant to jail and assess a fine rather than to the penitentiary, as permitted under section 708.8, is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court as is the question of any probation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jennings