James Sample v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Faretta v. California · Harmelin v. Michigan · Rummel v. Estelle · Ewing v. California · Montgomery v. State
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rulings that turn on evaluations of witness credibility and demeanor are reviewed for an abuse of discretion because the appellate court-deciding the issue from a cold record-is in an appreciably weaker position than the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Donaldson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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