State v. Guzek’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 8 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* "determine if such evidence is relevant and, therefore, generally admissible under ORS 163.150(1)(b)(B) (or under the other statutory questions on which the state bears the burden of proof), or whether the evidence qualifies solely as 'any aggravating evidence' not relevant to the first three questions and not rebutting any particular mitigating evidence offered by defendant."”

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

2. “"Any determination of the relevance of the state's aggravating evidence against [the] defendant therefore must be in relation to the first three statutory questions set out in ORS 163.150(1)(b)(A) to (C) or in relation to rebuttal of any particular mitigating evidence offered by defendant."”

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

3. “in no way mandates reconsideration by capital juries, in the sentencing phase, of their `residual doubts' over a defendant's guilt . . . [s]uch lingering doubts are not over any aspect of petitioner's `character,' `record,' or `circumstance of the offense.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Simpson v. Moore