Walton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hile this court has recognized the importance of psychological and psychiatric data as an aid in arriving at sentences which further the goals of penal administration, we have also held that such evaluations are not indispensable or necessary in every case, and that the absence of a psychiatric evaluation does not necessarily require us to set aside a sentence.”

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

2. ““Thus, where the sentencing court is fully aware of the defendant’s personal and psychological background and takes these factors into account in arriving at a sentence which comports with the proper goals of sentencing, this court need not remand for the purpose of obtaining a current psychological evaluation of the defendant.””

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

3. “A person convicted of rape upon any [person who is not under 16 years of age and not the daughter, son, sister or brother of the defendant] is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than 20 years nor less than one year.”

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