People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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. “inherent power to correct [an] error made at sentencing ... `which is, plainly, the result of some inadvertence on [the judge's] part, and which our reason tells us is a mere mistake.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Anderson