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← 561 N.W.2d 355 - State v. Phillips

State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1998
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · State v. Loyd · State v. Thomas · Farley v. Glanton · State v. Heinen

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

  1. “Sentencing decisions of the trial court are cloaked with a strong presumption in their favor, and an abuse of discretion will not be found unless the defendant shows that such discretion was exercised on grounds or for reasons clearly untenable or to an extent clearly unreasonable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “After receiving and examining all pertinent information, including the presen-tence investigation report and victim impact statements, if any, the court shall consider the following sentencing options.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.