Palmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Generally, parole is a privilege ... that benefits one serving a term of imprisonment by allowing the prisoner to serve part of the term “outside the walls of the institution” in a supervised but non-custodial environment. Parole is a collateral consequence of a guilty plea because it is served in lieu of actual prison time and “is wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the district judge” to grant. Lifetime supervision, on the other hand, must be imposed by the sentencing judge and served in addition to any term of imprisonment, probation or parole as a matter of law.”

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

2. “post-release supervision increases the maximum range of an offender's sentence, thereby directly and immediately affecting the defendant's punishment.”

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

3. “Direct consequences have an automatic and immediate effect on the nature or length of a defendant's punishment; collateral consequences do not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Amezcua v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct.