State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when a defendant is convicted of several offenses involving multiple victims arising out of a single behavioral incident, a sentencing court may use ‘overlapping1 facts of those offenses as the basis for an upward departure, provided that those facts show that the defendant committed the offense being sentenced in a particularly serious way.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. August Latimothy Fleming

2. “while not necessary to satisfy the elements of the offense in question, were nonetheless contemplated by the legislature when it set the punishment for the offense being sentenced”). .Although the district court sentenced Rush-ton in accordance with a plea agreement, a plea agreement”

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

3. “unfairly exaggerate the criminality of the defendant's conduct or punish a defendant twice for the same conduct.”

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