Perry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trial court's sentencing discretion includes the determination of whether to increase presumptive penalties, impose consecutive sentences on multiple convictions, or both. In doing so, the trial court determines which aggravating and mitigating cireumstances to consider, and is solely responsible for determining the weight to accord each of these factors.”

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

2. “The presumptive sentence assigned to a given class of felony is the penalty determined by the legislature to be appropriate for the standard erime committed by the standard criminal, in other words, where aggravators and mitigators rest at approximate equipoise.”

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