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Bonds v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jones v. West · Lee v. United States · Fugate v. State · Wethington v. State · Marshall 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a trial court relies upon aggravating cireumstances to enhance the presumptive sentence, it must identify all significant circumstances, state the specific reasons why the circumstance is aggravating or mitigating, and articulate the court's evaluation and balancing of the circumstances.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
    1 later decision 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.