State v. Corkum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 8 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There is no new sentence imposed as a result of a revocation of post-release supervision; only the remaining portion of the original sentence is activated. As stated earlier, the nine-month sentence is the remainder of the original sentence which is activated as a result of defendant’s failure to comply with terms of his post-release supervision. It is not a new sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 116 F. Supp. 3d 680 - United States v. Stone

2. “(1) the challenged action [is] in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there [is] a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would be subjected to the same action again.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 524 - Cumberland Cnty. Hosp. Sys., Inc. v. N.C. Dep't of Health & Human Servs.

3. “serving the same nine-month sentence that he would have served had post-release supervision been revoked following the first violation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Medina v. State