Simonds v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The prospect of increased punishment upon resentencing raise[s]) a double jeopardy problem only to the extent of a defendant's reasonable expectations that his original sentence had become final.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Joel Randy Ferguson v. The State of Wyoming · Jones v. State

2. “only those issues expressly directed by the mandate and such previously undecided collateral questions as are necessary to reach a decision on the mandated issues.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gregory Michael Hawes v. State · Jones v. State

3. “In order to assure the absence of such a motivation, we have concluded that whenever a judge imposes a more severe sentence upon a defendant after a new trial, the reasons for his doing so must affirmatively appear. Those reasons must be based upon objective information concerning identifiable conduct on the part of the defendant occurring after the time of the original sentencing proceeding. And the factual data upon which the increased sentence is based must be made part of the record, so that the constitutional legitimacy of the increased sentence may be fully reviewed on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Joel Randy Ferguson v. The State of Wyoming