State v. Risher’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably State v. Sweet (1985), State v. Tuzon (1978)
40 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 Federal Trade Commission v. Crafts · State v. Fuentes · 26 Ariz. App. 444 - State v. Fuentes · 7 Ariz. App. 422 - State v. Van Meter · State v. Vineyard
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.
“[The statute governing probation] operates to do nothing more than fix a maximum period for which the defendant must remain under probation supervision. While the measure of this period is established by the potential felony imprisonment which could be imposed, it bears no closer relationship to an actual sentence. To say that the fixing of the probationary term designates the crime as a felony and at the same time eliminates the possibility of a future misdemeanor sentence and possible incarceration in the county jail as punishment goes beyond the words of [the statute] as amended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brown““The court may suspend the imposing of sentence and may direct that the suspension continue for such period of time, not exceeding the maximum term of sentence which may be imposed, . and shall place such person on probation . ” (Emphasis ours)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Levasseur“The term sentence as used in this rule does include probation even though in most cases, under Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. § 13-1657(A) (Supp.1972), imposition of sentence must be suspended in order to place a person on probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaBar
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.