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State v. Gibbons’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2015

18 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · State v. Shickles · State v. Gibbons · State v. Gerrard · State v. Egbert

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

  1. “(5) (a) If a statute under which the defendant was convicted mandates that one of three stated minimum terms shall be imposed, the court shall order imposition of the term of middle severity unless there are circumstances in aggravation or mitigation of the crime. [[Image here]] (e) The court in determining a just sentence shall consider sentencing guidelines regarding aggravation and mitigation promulgated by the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Baker · State v. Russell
  2. “the sentence represents an abuse of discretion, if the trial judge fails to consider all legally relevant factors, or if the sentence imposed exceeds the limits prescribed by law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Tryba
  3. “An appellate court will set aside a sentence imposed by the trial court if the sentence represents an abuse of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Boyd

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.