State v. Komor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It may be that the defendant will prove himself incapable of successfully carrying out a sentence of probation; however, we deem that, in view of the treatment accorded defendant’s coperpetrator, and especially in view of the fact defendant has no prior criminal record, defendant must in any event be given the opportunity to try.”

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

2. “Anything other than that would constitute an impermissible disparity of sentences for identical offenses.”

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