Atwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
March 1980
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · Osborne v. State · Stockton v. State · Bixby 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to exercise clemency is, however, vested not in the courts but in the chief executive. Ark. Const. Art. 6, §18. Our latest cases have uniformly followed the rule, which we think to be sound, that the sentence is to be fixed by the jury rather than by this court. If the testimony supports the conviction for the offense in question and if the sentence is within the limits set by the legislature, we are not at liberty to reduce it even though we may think it to be unduly harsh.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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