State v. Ebright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “her sentence would grow.” The defendant failed to appear for sentencing and was ultimately sentenced to 12 years. The Ebright court found the defendant’s plea was constitutionally infirm because the defendant did not receive the sentence for which she bargained. Unlike Stewart and the present case, the trial court in Ebright did not specify the sentence defendant would face if she failed to appear, but rather simply stated her sentence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Roche

2. “(2) Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, any other controlled dangerous substance classified in Schedule I, shall upon conviction be sentenced to a term of imprisonment at hard labor for not less than five years nor more than thirty years, at least five years of which shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, and pay a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 973 So. 2d 777 - State v. Adams