839 So. 2d 206 - State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “... [The] Louisiana Supreme Court’s decision in Dorthey , which [sic] makes it clear that a court can find a mandatory minimum sentence under the Habitual Offender Law to be constitutionally excessive and impose a lesser sentence. While the Court is not required to consider Dorthey in sentencing a defendant, considering the enactment of Act 403, a signal that our legislature desires to revisit harsh sentencing in our state, we conclude that it was error for the district court not to have considered Dor-they in sentencing Rice. The district court did have the judicial powers to consider a sentence other than life imprisonment and the district court was erroneous in not considering an alternative sentence upon Rice’s request.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 859 So. 2d 707 - State v. Houston · 64 So. 3d 339 - State v. Hall

2. “When property is abandoned without any prior unlawful intrusion into a person's right to be free from governmental interference, that property may be lawfully seized.”

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