People v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1981 · most notably United States of America Ex Rel. Roy Schuster, Relator-Appellant v. Ross E. Herold, M.D., Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Dannemora, New York (1969), Hollis v. Smith (1978)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Stovall v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Specht v. Patterson · O’connor v. Ohio · Abbrescia v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)n examination of the statutory purpose as well as the weight of judicial authority indicate that the discretion of the sentencing Judge to mete out a one-day-to-life sentence is limited to those cases in which the record indicates some basis for a finding that the defendant is a danger to society or is capable of being benefited by the confinement envisaged under the statutory scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hollis v. Smith“(a) literal reading of the New York statutory scheme might lend support to the argument advanced by the People and accepted by the Appellate Division that the sentencing court has 'complete discretion' to sentence for one day to life,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hollis v. Smith“clearly brings this case within the ambit of the Specht holding and entitles those sentenced under the statute to a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hollis v. Smith
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.