516 So. 2d 1085 - Render v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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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. “[W]e believe the spirit of the rule would be defeated by allowing separate sentencing based on separate scoresheets where, as here, the sentences are imposed on the same day in combined proceedings. In this case, sentencing on the offenses underlying the appellant’s probation should have been deferred until the conclusion of her trial, and then all sentences on all offenses should have been imposed on the basis of a single scoresheet.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark v. State · Joyce v. State

2. “[o]ne guideline scoresheet shall be utilized for each defendant covering all offenses pending before the court for sentencing.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark v. State · Bembow v. State

3. “compels us to place the burden upon the trial court to assure that all of a defendant's cases pending for sentencing in a particular county at the time of that defendant's first sentencing hearing are disposed of using one scoresheet.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 519 So. 2d 1095 - Clark v. State