State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “".... The DA has permitted the Court to view his complete file. It was noticed that the District Attorney at the time of your offense was a personal friend of your family and even made an unsolicited phone call to your father after your arrest. It's probably not true but some folks might say that friendship is why only one charge of distribution of CDS was accepted and why that charge was later reduced to the lesser offense of possession of CDS. The Court observed in reviewing the DA's file that there was no solicitation of the public to send letters to the Judge regarding your sentencing. One might summize that if there had been such a solicitation many more than eighteen letters would have been received demanding that you get the maximum that the sentence allows." We feel that the trial court's comments on resentencing, once again, indicate a lack of individualization or particularization of the sentence imposed on this defendant. We think that defendant is entitled to the relief he seeks and will order that on remand for resentencing a judge other than the original sentencing judge resentence defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 488 So. 2d 454 - State v. Dondis