State v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he established standard of review is one of abuse of discretion. See Mondragon, State v. Seward, 289 Kan. 715 , 217 P.3d 443 (2009), and Thomas , wherein we stated: ‘On appellate review of this process, we apply a broad abuse of discretion standard because this issue involves the district court’s consideration and weighing of mitigating circumstances. Under this standard “ ‘[jjudicial discretion is abused when no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the district judge.’ ” Ortega-Cadelan, 287 Kan. at 165 (quoting State v. Engelhardt, 280 Kan. 113, 144 , 119 P.3d 1148 [2005] ); see State v. Jones, 283 Kan. 186, 215-16 , 151 P.3d 22 (2007) (same broad abuse of discretion standard applies to appellate review of weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances before imposing hard 50 sentence).’ Thomas, 288 Kan. at 164 .””

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