Skinker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably Logan v. State (1981), Bartholomey v. State (1972)
36 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3651
Relies on Estes v. Texas · Scott v. State · Brown v. State · Driver v. State · Coleman v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power to suspend sentence can be exercised only when there has been a conviction and sentence thereon; probation without verdict, if granted, avoids any finding of guilt. Indeed, one of its primary purposes, where its use is deemed appropriate, is to avoid placing the stigma of a conviction on the accused. See Mutter, Probation in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, 17 Md. L. Rev. 309 , 314. The difference is further manifested by the fact that these two powers are separately mentioned and dealt with by several statutes.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The circuit courts of the several counties in this State and the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, before conviction of any person accused of crime with the written consent of the person so accused, including persons appealing from convictions before trial magistrates or before the Municipal Court of Baltimore City, whether a minor or an adult, and after conviction or after a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, without such consent, are empowered, during the term of court in which such consent, conviction or plea is had, to : (1) Suspend the imposition of sentence; or (2) Place such person on probation without finding a verdict; and (3) Make such conditions of suspension of sentence and probation as the court may deem proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If this appellant cannot appeal a grave injustice might be done. ... As far as we know he is a man of high character and position in [the Spiritualists], and it is found against him that he is a man who will not do his duty by his country. . .. [I]t is said [the trial justices] have taken a course which prevents the appellant appealing and getting rid of the stigma put upon him. If the stigma has been unjustly put upon him it is not surprising that he desires to come here to get the finding altered . ...” 2K. B. at 282-83.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warren v. State
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.