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Ector v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
states following
October 2007
most recently cited

48 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Townsend v. State · Evans v. State · Duvall v. State · Markham v. State

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

  1. “a sentence less than an enhanced term sought by the prosecutor would depreciate the seriousness of the crime,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Spiller v. State · Jones v. State
  2. “[the statutory aggravating circumstance 'that imposition of a reduced sentence would depreciate the seriousness of the crime' is used only to support [the trial court's] refusal to reduce the presumptive sentence.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gregory-Bey v. State · Kirby v. State
  3. “may be used only when considering the imposition of a sentence of shorter duration than the presumptive sentence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Spiller v. State · Gregory-Bey v. State

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.