1 Utah 2d 117 - State v. Fedder’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Roberts v. State (1966), In Re Fedder (1956)
37 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. People of Territory of Utah · State v. Zolantakis · State v. Lee Lim · In re Flint · Williams v. Harris, Warden
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the technical legal sense, sentence is ordinarily synonymous with judgment, and denotes the action of a court of eriminal jurisdiction formally declaring to the accused the legal consequences of the guilt which he has confessed or of which he has been convicted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelbach · State v. Mooers““. . . The clear meaning of the words of the statute give[s] the court the power to withhold sentence until such time as the court determines whether or not the prisoner is capable of rehabilitation. ... In this case, the withholding of final judgment was not unreasonable within the interpretation of the judgment statute, . . .” (p. 120.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson“After a plea or verdict of guilty, or after a verdict against the defendant on a plea of a former conviction or acquittal or once in jeopardy, if the judgment is not arrested or a new trial granted, the court must appoint a time for pronouncing judgment, which must be at least two days and not more than ten days after the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelbach v. McCotter
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.