People v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably People v. District Court of the City of Denver (1983), 39 Colo. App. 409 - People v. Salazar (1977)
38 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. Ledford · People v. Carr · State v. McCoy · Varela v. Merrill · 69 Wash. 2d 64 - State Ex Rel. Woodhouse v. Dore
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probationary power of court. When it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public, as well as the defendant, will be served thereby, the court may grant the defendant probation for such period and upon such terms and conditions as it deems best.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sentence not involving confinement which imposes conditions and retains authority in the sentencing court to modify the conditions of the sentence or to resentence the offender if he violates the conditions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Anderson“Nothing in the legislative history suggests that the legislature intended to restrict the power of the court by the deletion of this surplusage [ i. e., references to suspension of sentences].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Henderson
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.