State v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Ellis (1983), Gimmy v. People (1982)
20 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 Ansell v. Commonwealth · Cooper v. State · Coleman v. Commonwealth · State v. Lohrbach · State v. Carlson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'This argument might be effective if addressed to the lawmakers. But with respect to a judicial interpretation of the particular statute under consideration it has no merit.' " Id. (quoting Louisiana v. Williams, 226 La. 862, 77 So.2d 515, 516 (1955)). Pierce was an habitual criminal because "(i)t makes no difference whether the two prior convictions provided for consecutive sentences, or whether, as here, the defendant was permitted to serve his two terms concurrently, nor that there was no time interval between conviction and commitment for the first offense and commission of the second.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce v. Parratt“'This argument might be effective if addressed to the lawmakers. But with respect to a judicial interpretation of the particular statute under consideration it has no merit.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce 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.