647 So. 2d 597 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 1998
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 404 So. 2d 1205 - State v. Campbell · 414 So. 2d 1210 - State v. Howard · 639 So. 2d 237 - State v. Smith · State v. Polkey · 530 So. 2d 615 - State v. Everett
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [W]hile a trial judge must consider the Guidelines, he has complete discretion to reject the Guidelines and impose any sentence which is not constitutionally excessive, [footnote omitted] but is within the statutory sentencing range for the crime of which a defendant has been convicted, so long as he states for the record the considerations taken into account and the factual basis for his imposition of that sentence, La.Code Cr.P. art. 894.1; and (2) where the trial judge has considered the Guidelines and imposed a sentence, adequately stating for the record the considerations taken into account and the factual basis for imposition of that sentence, an appellate court is limited to a review of the sentence imposed for constitutional excessiveness, without regard as to whether the trial judge either employed or deviated from the Guidelines. [Emphasis in source.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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