People v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2018
21 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 People v. Herrera · People v. Fulmer · People v. Lichtenwalter · People Ex Rel. City of Aurora v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen sentence is imposed upon any person following a conviction of any felony . . . the person convicted shall have the right to one appellate review of the propriety of the sentence . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boyd“for the purposes of reviewing and granting relief from sentences validly imposed the judgment and sentence is not final until after appellate remedies for review have been exhausted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boyd“[T]he appellate review of sentences by this [c]ourt, before finality of judgment of conviction, as allowed by section 40-1-509, is a proper judicial function . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boyd
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.