State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The District Court, in making the judgment and sentence, stated as follows: ‘It is herein recited that in pronouncing this Judgment and Sentence the Court and the undersigned Judge thereof has taken into consideration, among other things, the time you have already served in prison under the terms of the judgment and Sentence of April 14, 1961 * * * .’ The District Court had made it quite clear to the defendant that if all the motions were granted he could be sentenced from one year to fifteen years, and the defendant acknowledged his understanding of this. The District Court chose to take into consideration the time spent in prison and only imposed six years as the sentence. * * *””

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