State v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “More importantly, the sentence that defendant received * * * was a concurrent •sentence. Crediting jail time against both sentences in such a situation does not give the defendant an unfair double credit, but instead prevents a de facto departure resulting in consecutive [sentence].”

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