Hutton v. McCleskey’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2020
14 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 Baldwin v. Scoggin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* ‘ The power of the executive is, in other words, limited to the extension of clemency to individuals under sentence or judgment for crime, penalty or forfeiture, and does not reach to the granting of general amnesties, nor relief from civil penalties and forfeitures.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tinkle v. State“No power of suspending or setting aside the law or laws of the state shall ever be exercised except by the General Assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Watkins
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.