State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Defendant] can be sentenced under the patterned sex offender statute * * * only if there is no reasonable likelihood that all of [defendant’s] multiple acts of penetration of the child in question during the year in question occurred before the statute became effective.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lunsford · State v. Goldenstein

2. “The trial judge, in its role of sentencing judge, was free to resolve this issue for sentencing purposes.”

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