State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In this case, I am going to sentence you in accordance with the jury’s assessment and verdict. I am not going to order the sentences to ran concurrent. There are two separate victims in this case. You have not accepted responsibility for your crime. And, in this case, your victimization of these two young girls was magnified or aggravated by the fact that they were required to come in and testify. And it was obvious to the Court that it was a traumatic event for them to come in here to testify in front of you, as well as the 12 jurors and the Court, as to your activities last July. And so with those factors and consideration, Mr. Wright, I am going to sentence you under Count I to a term of two years in the Department of Corrections; and under Count II for another two-year term of imprisonment. Count II is to run consecutive to Count I.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wright · Williams v. State

2. “[N]o constitutional violation occur[s] if there were other reasons which also caused the court to impose the same sentence, so that the comment on the fact defendant went to trial was not determinative.”

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

3. “Any enhancement of a defendant's sentence based on this fact would improperly punish a defendant for exercising his or her right to a full and fair trial to a jury.”

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