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← 769 NE2D 172 - Henderson v. State

Henderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Payton v. New York · New York v. Harris · Richardson v. State · Hammons v. State · Spivey 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “may imply that the sentencing court improperly overlooked them, the court is obligated neither to credit mitigating cireumstances in the same way as would the defendant, nor to explain why he or she has chosen not to find mitigating cireumstances.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “If a trial court relies upon aggravating or mitigating circumstances to enhance or reduce the presumptive sentence, it must (1) identify all significant mitigating and aggravating cireumstances; (2) state the specific reason why each cireumstance is determined to be mitigating or aggravating; and (8) articulate the court's evaluation and balancing of the circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “including a trial court's decision to increase or decrease the presumptive sentence because of aggravating or mitigating circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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