Seays v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Townsend v. Burke · 488 So. 2d 129 - Elizagarate v. State · Reese v. State · State v. Potts · Jansson 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court can consider a defendant’s prior arrests not leading to convictions for purposes of sentencing so long as the court recognizes that these arrests are not convictions or findings of guilt, and the defendant is given an opportunity to explain or offer evidence on the issue of his prior arrests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the due process clause prohibits a court from considering charges of which an accused has been acquitted in passing sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nusspickel v. State
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.