State v. Stacker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he defendant used a firearm to shoot the victim at relatively close range, which, in the present case, resulted in a bullet-hole through the victim’s tongue and a bullet lodged in his neck.... While we note that the.trial judge in the instant case did not give any reasons for sentencing, we do not find that he abused his wide discretion in determining a sentence. Furthermore, the record supports the imposed sentence of 50 years.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 63 So. 3d 343 - State v. Thomas

2. “that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 930 So. 2d 1039 - State v. Hebert

3. “inferred from the extent and severity of the victim's injuries.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jones