Smith v. Pelham’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 40 Ala. App. 587 - Fiorella v. State (1960), 40 Ala. App. 551 - Sparks v. State (1959)
26 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 Ex parte United States · United States v. Mayer · United States v. Murray · United States v. Mayer · People v. Sidwell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It will be observed that the power to suspend the execution of sentence and to place the convicted person on probation is not expressly limited to the time of imposition of sentence or to any period of time thereafter. On the contrary, it seems clear that it was the intention of the legislature enacting this remedial and humanitarian legislation that the power to suspend the execution of a sentence should continue until its execution has actually commenced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““§ 19. Circuit courts * * * subject to the provisions and conditions hereinafter provided, may suspend execution of sentence and place on probation any person convicted of crime in any court exercising criminal jurisdiction. The court shall have no power to suspend the execution of sentence imposed upon any person who has been found guilty and whose punishment is fixed at death or imprisonment in the penitentiary for more than ten years. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"When the defendant . . . gives bail pending the appeal and the judgment of conviction is affirmed . . . he is bound by the undertaking of bail to surrender himself to the sheriff . . . within 15 days from the date of such affirmance. . . . If the defendant is taken on such writ or if he shall surrender himself to the sheriff, the sentence must, without delay, be carried out as if no appeal had been taken."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.