State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 10 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “we acknowledge that if this court reweighed the aggravating and mitigating factors and resentenced Moore, the federal court would likely reverse.... Therefore, it is futile for us to proceed with the resentencing,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Moore v. Kinney · Carey D. Moore v. Michael L. Kinney, Warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex

2. “As indicated in State v. Reeves ..., we have the authority to resentence by analyzing and reweighing the aggravating and mitigating factors of the case.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reeves v. Hopkins · Reeves v. Hopkins