Yasin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Once the trial court imposed a minimum mandatory term of 25 years, it could not exceed the 30-year maximum penalty for a first-degree felony under section 775.082. The 25-year to life minimum mandatory range under section 775.087(2)(a)3. [the 10-20-Life statute] does not create a new statutory maximum penalty of life imprisonment.”

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

2. “give the trial judge discretion to inflate the mandatory minimum term of incarceration but not to re-define the statutory maximums.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 999 So. 2d 665 - Mendenhall v. State

3. “to a minimum term of imprisonment of not less than 25 years and not more than a term of imprisonment of life in prison.”

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