State v. O'Connor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) Out-of-state convictions and juvenile adjudications shall be used in classifying the offenders criminal history. “(2) An out-of-state crime will be classified as either a felony or a misdemeanor according to the convicting jurisdiction: (A) If a crime is a felony in another state, it will be counted as a felony in Kansas. [[Image here]] “(3) The state of Kansas shall classify the crime as person or nonperson. In designating a crime as person or nonperson, comparable offenses under the Kansas criminal code in effect on the date the current crime of conviction was committed shall be referred to. If the state of Kansas does not have a comparable offense in effect on die date die current crime of conviction was committed, the out-of-state conviction shall be classified as a nonperson crime. “(4) Convictions or adjudications occurring within . . . other state systems . . . are considered out-of-state convictions or adjudications. “(5) The facts required to classify out-of-state adult convictions and juvenile adjudications shall be established by die state by a preponderance of the evidence.””

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