14 Utah 2d 352 - Mansell v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the conditional termination were void, petitioner has no complaint as to recommitment to prison, since the compact was nudum pactum. If he takes the inconsistent position that it was valid but unenforceable, the same result should inhere, since it would be against public policy unilaterally to enforce it in favor of the felon as against the state, but unenforceable by the latter, — particularly when the whole tenor of the conditioned compact was a matter of grace to the former. . . . [T]he Board is authorized to release prisoners on condition. Under what conditions, the legislation is silent, but the authority obviously is plenary. The prisoner may reject the conditions and serve out his term. It hardly lies in his mouth to accept such conditions, obtain his release from confinement and then blithely contend his sentence is terminated and he is free as a bird.” 384 P.2d at 395 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 18 Ariz. App. 108 - Sheppard v. State Ex Rel. Eyman

2. “"If ... [a condition of parole] may be onerous and in fact is, the applicant for liberty may consider it so and turn it down. He may be willing, however, to accede to the condition and consider it better than a cage. The assumption that a condition requiring one to leave [or stay out of] the state [or county] to be an expulsion is not borne out by logic, since the applicant has a choice to leave [or stay out] voluntarily or stay in jail."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beavers v. State