Doyle v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 31 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Section 10771 — Punishment for murder in the first degree — Every person convicted of murder in the first degree, or as an accessory before the fact of such crime, shall suffer death by electrocution, or be imprisoned for life, or over twenty years, as the jury may determine. ’ ’ “Section 11771 — Parole power in commissioner of institutions stall have the power to cause to be released on parole any person sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary who has served the minimum term provided by law for the offense committed by him, less good time; provided, that no convict serving a life sentence shall be paroled until he has served for twenty-five years, less diminution which would have been allowed for good conduct had his sentence been for twenty-five years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bosley v. State

2. “[p]arole ... is nothing more than a conditional suspension of sentence ... [and the sentence of the prisoner] does not expire because of the parole[] nor during the pendency of the parole[, and] during this time [the prisoner] is still in the custody of the penal authorities of the State and subject to the provisions upon which [he or she] has been paroled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Harris