State v. O'CONNOR’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably State v. Hill (1962), State v. Wood (1963)
26 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 In re Hendricks · McCall v. Goode · State ex rel. Boynton v. Gaitskill · State Ex Rel. Hawks v. City of Topeka
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In committing a defendant to an institution, the court shall not fix a maximum term of imprisonment, but the maximum term provided by law for the offense for which die prisoner was convicted and sentenced shall apply in each case: Provided, In those cases where the law does not fix a maximum term of imprisonment for the offense for which die prisoner was convicted and sentenced, the court shall fix the maximum term of imprisonment. . . .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berger v. Hand · Johnson v. Hand““While an act of the legislature should not be declared invalid for uncertainty if susceptible of a reasonable construction which will give it support and effect, it may be so conflicting or indefinite in its provisions as to be incapable of reasonable interpretation and application. . . .” , . As we have heretofore seen, this state (Laws 1931, ch. 170) is conflicting in some of its provisions, it is vague, uncertain and indefinite in others, and incomplete in other respects. The result is we feel constrained to hold it to be inoperative and void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court may in its discretion fix a minimum term of imprisonment, which shall in no case exceed the minimum term prescribed by law or one-third of the maximum term provided by law for the offense for which the defendant was convicted, or seven years, whichever is less.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crimi v. Hand
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.