State v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment' or that the sentence amounted to nothing more than `the purposeful imposition of pain and suffering' and is `grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime,'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Chisley · 945 So. 2d 768 - State v. Anderson

2. “In order to support the granting of a mistrial, the inference must be plain that the remark was intended to focus the jury's attention on the defendant's failure to testify.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 968 So. 2d 766 - State v. Brown · 985 So. 2d 234 - State v. Jones

3. “transcript of the guilty plea colloquy. A”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 880 So. 2d 29 - State v. Muhammad · 831 So. 2d 460 - State v. Robinson