803 So. 2d 821 - McCloud v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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

1. “(V)irtually every sentence involving a crime of violence that has been handed down in Florida for almost two decades has included a judicially-determined victim injury component to the guidelines score. Justice O'Connor's observation that the effect of Apprendi to guidelines sentencing would be "colossal" barely describes the cataclysm in Florida if such sentences are invalidated because the jury did not make the "victim injury" finding.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hughes v. State · 826 So. 2d 1070 - Hughes v. State

2. “[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hindenach v. State · 843 So. 2d 940 - Arrowood v. State

3. “barely describes the cataclysm in Florida if such sentences are invalidated because the jury did not make the”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hughes v. State · 826 So. 2d 1070 - Hughes v. State