State v. Ali’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t would scarcely be competent for a person to assail the constitutionality of the statute prescribing a punishment for burglary on the ground that he had committed so many burglaries that, if punishment for each were inflicted on him, he might be kept in prison for life.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ira v. Janecka · 233 Md. App. 702 - McCullough v. State

2. “Admittedly, we have elected to follow well-reasoned Supreme Court dictum in the past. But here, we simply hold that absent further guidance from the Court, we will not extend the Miller / Montgomery rule to include ... [a de facto life sentence.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carter, Bowie, McCullough v. State

3. “it is constitutionally permissible to punish a person who commits two, three, four or even more crimes (including murder) more severely than a person who commits a single crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ira v. Janecka