Hedlund v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a court is free to assign less weight to mitigating factors that did not influence a defendant's conduct at the time of the crime”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Spreitz v. Ryan · Theodore Wash. v. Ryan

2. “My agreement on this point should not be construed as a concession that [ State v .] McKinney [, 185 Ariz. 567 , 917 P.2d 1214 (1996) ) ] was correctly decided. It was not. But I recognize that, as a three-judge panel, we are bound to follow McKinney until it is overruled by the Supreme Court of a future en banc panel of our court. ... As a result, I concur in the majority opinion in full.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 190 Wash. 2d 136 - In re Pers. Restraint of Arnold

3. “[Although] Judge Sheldon constitutionally applied a causal-nexus test in the context of an Arizona statutory mitigating factor[, § 13-703(G)(1), that] statement does not show that Judge Sheldon excluded mitigating evidence from his consideration, and Judge Sheldon's other statements repeatedly demonstrate otherwise.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Spreitz v. Ryan