Dillon v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that district court did not abuse its discretion in finding aggravating factor of particular cruelty based on “the serious and permanent injuries [appellant] inflicted”
• concluding that “review of the length of a more-than-doubled sentence should be less deferential”
• holding that a single aggravating factor is sufficient to justify an upward departure
• stating that “victim injuries have been relied on in multiple 9 departure cases” and that victim injury may be “a useful indicator of the degree of brutality involved”
• stating that “we have found no case in which this court or the supreme court has overturned a district court’s decision to depart . . . when adequate departure grounds exist”
• addressing lack of remorse as a basis for an upward departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hahn
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2011-05-31· cited 15×
• State v. Castillo-Alvarez
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2012-09-17· cited 13×
• State v. Ayala-Leyva
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2014-05-19· cited 12×
• State v. Hicks
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2013-09-03· cited 10×
• State v. Weaver
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2011-05-03· cited 9×
• State v. Robideau
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2010-06-15· cited 4×
• State of Minnesota v. Robert John Meyers
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-09-30· cited 4×
• State of Minnesota v. Robert John Meyers
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2014-09-15· cited 3×
• State of Minnesota v. Jacob Miles Solberg
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2015-08-24· cited 2×
• State v. Robideau
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2012-06-25· cited 1×
• State v. Turrubiates
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2013-05-06· cited 1×
• State of Minnesota v. John Chester Hageman, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2024-05-06
• State of Minnesota v. Samantha Dana Schroeder
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2024-06-10
• State of Minnesota v. Bjorn Bolton Iverson
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2024-06-17

Cites

51 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. Griller
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-30· cited 451×
• Lewis v. LeGrow
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2003-10-16· cited 253×
• Leake v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-08-16· cited 146×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-02-08· cited 133×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-10-26· cited 131×
• State v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-04-12· cited 128×
• State v. Shattuck
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-10-06· cited 124×
• State v. Back
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-12-09· cited 96×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-01-30· cited 91×
• State v. Norton
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-12-30· cited 80×
• Rairdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-12-12· cited 76×
• State v. Van Gorden
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-11-24· cited 63×
• State v. Spain
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-02-25· cited 50×
• State v. Herberg
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-09-08· cited 47×
• State v. Stumm
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-11-20· cited 45×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2000-03-02· cited 42×
• State v. Peake
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-04-26· cited 42×
• STATE, CTY. OF HENNEPIN v. McClay
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-10-06· cited 41×
• State v. Ming Sen Shiue
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-12-03· cited 39×