Hardebeck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2015
18 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 Fugate v. State · Abercrombie v. State · Davidson v. State · Sims v. State · Burr 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are two purposes for requiring the reasoned sentencing statement. One, it safeguards against the imposition of arbitrary and capricious sentences because it ensures that the sentencing judge only considered proper matters when imposing sentence. Two, the statement allows a reviewing court to determine the reasonableness of the imposed sentence.... In reviewing the sufficiency of a sentencing statement this court is not limited to review of the written sentencing order but is required to look at the entire record including the sentencing hearing. The record must demonstrate that the trial court’s determination was based upon consideration of the facts of the crime, the aggravating and mitigating circumstances involved, arid the relation of the sentence imposed to the objectives which will be served by that sentence. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State“The nature of Hardebeck's offenses justifies what is tantamount to a life sentence, and we cannot say that the 240-year sentence is manifestly unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. State“[T]he primary consideration of the trial court during sentencing is rehabilitation of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen 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.