Heggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 803 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 808 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]f a person's sentence imposed under the 1995 guidelines could have been imposed under the 1994 guidelines (without a departure), then that person shall not be entitled to relief under our decision here.”

   27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Glenn v. State · James v. State

2. “An unconstitutional portion of a general law may be deleted and the remainder allowed to stand if the unconstitutional provision can be logically separated from the remaining valid provisions, that is, if the legislative purpose expressed in the valid provisions can be accomplished independently of those which are void; and the good and bad features are not inseparable and the Legislature would have passed one without the other; and an act complete in itself remains after the invalid provisions are stricken.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 824 So. 2d 137 - Tormey v. Moore · 836 So. 2d 1112 - State v. Franklin

3. “"[i]t is assumed, without inquiring into the particular facts, that the unrelated subjects were combined in one bill in order to convert several minorities into a majority. The one-subject rule declares that this perversion of majority rule will not be tolerated. The entire act is suspect and so it must all fall."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 839 So. 2d 748 - Green v. State · 887 So. 2d 1191 - Banks v. State