State v. Beamon’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. “For persons given consecutive sentences, the sentence durations for each separate offense sentenced consecutively shall be aggregated into a single presumptive sentence. The presumptive duration for offenses sentenced consecutively is determined by locating the Sentencing Guidelines Grid cell defined by the most severe offense and the offender’s criminal history score and by adding to the duration shown therein the duration indicated for every other offense sentenced consecutively at their respective levels of severity but at the zero criminal history column on the Grid.”

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

2. “The guidelines do not indicate that the procedure for computing consecutive sentences affects the disposition of the sentence; the procedure only is used to calculate the “duration” of the consecutive sentences by limiting the number of times the offender’s criminal history score will be counted.”

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

3. “reflects the presumptive executed sentence”

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