84 N.C. App. 408 - State v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 1999
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · Oregon v. Bradshaw · State v. Ahearn · Edwards v. Arizona
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An aggravating factor is intended to aid the trial court in imposing a punishment commensurate with defendant’s culpability. . . . [T]he Supreme Court stated a guideline for determining when a factor is properly used to aggravate a sentence. The Court said a factor should not be considered in aggravation of a sentence unless it makes defendant more blameworthy than he already is as a result of committing a violent crime against another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wheeler
How this case has been treated — in progress
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