Lloyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(A) Eddie Harrell testified for you. He was the third victim of the Defendant. And what did he tell you? In all the facts and circumstances, I want you to think about this. We are lucky that Eddie Harrell showed up, those victims, Roy and Kaye and maybe the other witnesses are lucky Eddie showed up. (Tr. II, 110) (B) Thank you, Your Honor. If the Court please, ladies and gentlemen, I hope that you are not shocked as Mr. Laphen put it in his opening statement about the minimum punishment for Assault With A Dangerous Weapon, After Former Conviction of Two or More Felonies. As citizens of Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma, each and every one of you should realize that if a person is a formerly convicted felon that the punishment is higher. We don’t give free crimes in Oklahoma. (Tr. II, 145) (C) We’ve introduced evidence that the Defendant has been convicted of all three of the crimes alleged in the second page of the Information, Garland Max Funkhouser. That evidence, that he is the same Garland Max Funk-houser is uncontradicted. (Tr. II, 145) (D) What we do now is ask you to follow the law and the law says that the punishment is not less than twenty years. You have those former convictions. (Tr. II, 146) (E) I’d ask that due to the violent nature of the crime, that you've convicted him of, the fact that he is a habitual offender, the fact that one of the former convictions is for a violent crime, that you begin your deliberations, begin your deliberation at not less than thirty ”

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

2. “[i]t is a decision resting in the sound discretion of the trial court as to whether a defendant's sentences should run concurrently.”

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