State v. Patton

How courts have described this case

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

• \An abuse of discretion is that which shocks the conscience of the court and appears so unfair and inequitable that a reasonable person could not abide it.\
• trial court, in most instances, more able than appellate courts to evaluate defendant and his circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Atwood
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-07-10· cited 361×
• State v. Davolt
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2004-02-17· cited 223×
• State v. Mincey
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-04-04· cited 87×
• State v. Jerousek
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-02-06· cited 76×
• State v. Baumann
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-03-26· cited 72×
• State v. Stotts
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 63×
• State v. Ethington
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 56×
• State v. Long
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2004-02-03· cited 50×
• State v. La Mountain
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-04-29· cited 43×
• State v. Herrera
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1978-12-06· cited 41×
• State v. Walton
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1982-06-29· cited 35×
• State v. DePiano
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-09-05· cited 31×
• State v. Gordon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-04-08· cited 30×
• State v. Neese
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1980-08-14· cited 30×
• State v. Watkins
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-07-10· cited 28×
• State v. Germain
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-07-15· cited 27×
• State v. Thurlow
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1986-01-08· cited 26×
• State v. Flores
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1984-01-19· cited 26×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1984-09-11· cited 25×
• State v. McGuire
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-12-15· cited 23×