State v. Stockton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There is strong precedent among other jurisdictions for the position taken by our court that a juvenile record of criminal conduct may properly be considered in assessing a suitable sentence upon a felony conviction by an adult. The only logical reason for including a juvenile record in a pre-sentence investigation report would be for the purpose of mitigation or enlargement of a subsequent sentence for a conviction of a felony. An adult felon has no right to the protection afforded a juvenile prior to his obtaining an age where he must face the full societal responsibilities of adulthood. It would serve neither the interest of society, nor protect the public from further criminal conduct by the defendant, to wipe the slate clean and deny the sentencing authority the benefit of a defendant’s past history of criminal activity, in assessing his sentence, simply because some part of that history occurred during his juvenile years.”

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