State v. Walzer’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Cobham v. Commissioner of Correction (2001), State v. Reid (2006)
54 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 State v. Evans · Katsetos v. Nolan · Moscone v. Manson · Czarnecki v. Plastics Liquidating Co. · Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations v. Board of Education
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the sentence is put into effect and the prisoner is taken in execution, custody is transferred from the court to the custodian of the penal institution. At this point jurisdiction of the court over the prisoner terminates . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a criminal case the imposition of sentence is the judgment of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]t any time during the period of a definite sentence . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.