State v. Candelaria’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Keith · Gonzales v. Lovington Public Schools · State v. Encinias
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person has been convicted of a crime for which a sentence of imprisonment is authorized and when the ... district court has deferred or suspended [that] sentence, it shall order the defendant to be placed on probation for all or some portion of the period of deferment or suspension ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial court has discretion to vary the penalty for a crime by suspending part or all of the sentence, depending on a wide variety of factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.