Deagle v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2016
22 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 Furman v. Georgia · Crutchfield v. Commonwealth · Powell v. Commonwealth · Huggins v. Commonwealth · Royster v. Smith
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ommon sense and reason dictate that the jury, if it had been required to choose between the two punishments it fixed, would have imposed the greater, the penitentiary sentence, and not the lesser, the fine.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]rom the verdicts . . . that the jury intended that Deagle be sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary on each indictment . . . [and] to pay a fine of $1,000 on each indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] sentence in excess of one prescribed by law is not void ab initio ..., but is good insofar as the power of the court extends, and is invalid only as to the excess.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.