State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2024
13 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 United States v. Rosa · United States v. Bergmann · United States v. Dickie · Johnson v. Mabry · State v. Greensweig
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a written judgment is presumably a correct statement of the judgment pronounced in open court, and for that reason is ordinarily treated as an expression of the judgment itself, the principle remains that the only legally cognizable sentence in a criminal case is the “actual oral pronouncement in the presence of the defendant.” ... The legal sentence consists of the words pronounced in open court by the judge, not the words appearing in the written order of commitment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dallas
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.