State v. Ethington’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably People v. Panizzon (1996), State v. Mincey (1981)
2 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Kern v. Columbia Gas System, Inc. · State v. Patton · State v. Quintana · State v. Douglas · State v. Gibson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ole responsibility for sentencing rests with the trial judge and in the absence of clear abuse of discretion, his sentence is valid. An abuse of discretion is characterized ... by a failure to conduct an adequate investigation into the facts necessary for an intelligent exercise of the court’s sentencing power. (Citations omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mincey · State v. Anderson“a defendant will be permitted to bring a timely appeal from a conviction notwithstanding an agreement not to appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Ellis
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.