State v. Suggett’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
40
cited by 40 later decisions
2
states following
December 1986
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hampton v. Struve · Keller v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF ROADS · State v. Goodseal · Clark v. State · O'Connor v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except where a term of life is required by law, in imposing an indeterminate sentence upon the offender, the court may: (1) Fix the minimum and maximum limits of the sentence, but the minimum limit fixed by the court shall not be less than the minimum provided by law nor more than one-third of the maximum term, and the maximum limit shall not be greater than the maximum provided by law[.] [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Niemann v. Parratt
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.