People v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Lopez v. People (2005), State v. Segotta (1983)
41 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · People v. Blue · People v. Watkins · People v. Garcia · R & F Enterprises, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he words ‘extraordinary mitigating or aggravating circumstances’ mean that among the factors the trial court may weigh and consider are ... past conduct, ... pattern of conduct which indicates whether he is a serious danger to society, past convictions, and possibility of rehabilitation. The reference in section 105(6) to the presentence report reflects the legislative intent that the court should consider the prior history and circumstances of the defendant ... in determining whether there are facts which justify imposition of a sentence lesser or greater than the presumptive range.” (Footnote omitted.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In imposing a sentence to incarceration, the court shall impose a definite sentence which is within the presumptive ranges ... unless it concludes that extraordinary mitigating or aggravating circumstances are present, are based on evidence in the record of the sentencing hearing and the presentence report, and support a different sentence which better serves the purposes of this code with respect to sentencing....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Walker · People v. Orth“the court shall consider the nature and elements of the offense, the character and record of the offender, and all aggravating or mitigating circumstances surrounding the offense and the offender”
2 later decisions 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.