Cote v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1970
9 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. Pridgeon · Commonwealth v. Maloney · Tuttle v. Lang · Maine v. Sturgis · Welch v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory authority in this state for the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence or for a stay of execution is the Probation Act of 1909 (Rev. Stats. 1916, Chap. 137, Secs. 12, 13, 14) and Rev. Stats. 1916, Chap. 136, Sec. 27 as amended by the Public Laws of 1917, Chap. 156, Sec. 3...............What limitations upon the authority of a court of general jurisdiction to postpone the imposition of a sentence, or to suspend sentence, or to stay execution of sentence, now exist, if any, we find it unnecessary to decide and express no opinion thereon.” Cote v. Cummings, 126 Me. 330, 338 ; 138 A. 547 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blanchard““It is the judgment of the Court which authorizes detention. The mittimus is the evidence of the officer’s authority. The judgment is the real thing. The precept is not. The important question on habeas corpus is, is the prisoner in the custody where the judgment commanded him to be put and not how he was taken into custody.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stern v. Chandler
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.