ENDRIS v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Such discretion is limited, however, inasmuch as a court may not enter an illegal sentence. A sentence is illegal if it violates the constitution or other law.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chester Loyde Bird v. State · Elmer Candelario v. State

2. “[U]nder the Wyoming Adult Community Corrections Act, "the sentencing court may, as a condition of probation, order that [an eligible] offender participate in a residential or nonresidential adult community correctional program." Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 7-18-108 (a).... But the legislature also provided that a person in a community correctional program is in official detention, and may be charged with escape from the program. Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 7-18-112 . Based on these explicit statutory provisions, we have recognized that a person participating in a community corrections program may be treated as both on probation and in detention. Peper v. State, 768 P.2d 26, 29 (Wyo.1989).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker v. State · Dustin Lee Yearout v. The State of Wyoming

3. “Our rules of eriminal procedure authorize a trial court to correct an illegal sentence at any time. W.R.Cr.P. 35(a). A motion to correct an illegal sentence is properly addressed to the trial court in the first instance. Kahlsdorf v. State, 823 P.2d 1184, 1189 (Wyo.1991). For reasons of judicial economy, however, we have considered illegal sentence claims when the issue was raised for the first time on appeal, Price v. State, 716 P.2d 324, 328 (Wyo.1986), and when the issue, although mentioned 'in the trial court, was not pursued until appeal. Kahlsdorf, 823 P.2d at 1189 . Sarr v. State, 2007 WY 140, ¶ 12 , 166 P.3d 891, 895 (Wyo.2007). We are not precluded from considering the legality of Mr. Endris's sentence for the first time on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John Leslie Chapman v. The State of Wyoming