Patrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the fact that the defendant was on probation at the time he committed the instant offense is derivative of the defendant's criminal history and, therefore, proper under Blakely.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Patrick v. State

2. “A defendant's 'probationary period' begins immediately after sentencing, even if his or her actual probation begins at a later date.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Neff v. State