State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Hennis (1988), State v. Brown (1987)
89 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on White v. White · State v. Ahearn · State v. Jones · State v. Wilson · North Carolina National Bank v. Burnette
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abuse of discretion results where the court's ruling is manifestly unsupported by reason or is so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Almost always remorse occurs, if at all, sometime after the commission when defendant has had an opportunity to reflect on his criminal deed. If after such time for reflection remorse does not come, and there is evidence of this fact, then lack of remorse properly may be found by the sentencing judge as an aggravating circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The balance struck by the sentencing judge in weighing the aggravating against the mitigating factors, being a matter within his discretion, will not be disturbed unless it is ‘manifestly unsupported by reason,’ ... or ‘so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision . . . .’ We will not ordinarily disturb the trial judge’s weighing of aggravating and mitigating factors. When, however, there is no rational basis for the manner in which the aggravating and mitigating factors were weighed by the sentencing judge, his decision will amount to an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bolinger
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.