38 So. 3d 1102 - State v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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. “La. Const, art. I, § 20 guarantees that, “[n]o law shall subject any person to cruel or unusual punishment.” To constitute an excessive sentence, the reviewing court must find the penalty so grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime as to shock our sense of justice or that the sentence makes no measurable contribution to acceptable penal goals and is, therefore, nothing more than a needless imposition of pain and suffering. The trial court has wide discretion in the imposition of sentence within the statutory limits and such sentence shall not be set aside as excessive absent a manifest abuse of discretion. The relevant question is whether the trial court abused its broad sentencing discretion, not whether another sentence might have been more appropriate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 129 So. 3d 104 - State v. Edwards

2. ““Under the doctrine of ‘law of the case,’ an appellate court will generally refuse to reconsider its own rulings of law on a subsequent appeal in the same case. State v. Doussan, 05-586 (La.App. 5 Cir. 2/14/06) , 924 So.2d 333, 339 , writ denied, 06-608 (La.10/13/06), 939 So.2d 372 .” State v. Bozeman, 06-679, p. 6 (La.App. 5 Cir. 1/30/07), 951 So.2d 1171, 1174 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 61 So. 3d 747 - State v. Langley