Carmichael v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably State v. Smith (1999), State v. Dunn (2016)
4 district · 78 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 State v. Ruff · Pryor v. State · State v. Williams · State v. Scherzer · State v. Bishop
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We have defined an “ ‘illegal sentence’ [as] either a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction; a sentence which does not conform to the statutory provision, either in the character or the term of the punishment authorized; or a sentence which is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served.” ’ ” (Quoting State v. Scherzer, 254 Kan. 926 , Syl. ¶ 1, 869 P.2d 729 [1994].)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sisk · State v. Johnson“the proper remedy is to vacate the sentence imposed for rape and resentence the petitioner for aggravated incest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LaBona v. State · Beem v. McKune“the imposition of an erroneous sentence, " basing its conclusion on the Kansas legislature's intent to impose a less severe punishment for identical conduct perpetrated by a person related to the victim. Id. at 244 (emphasis added). Accordingly, the court relied on its statutory authority to "correct an illegal sentence at any time,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beem v. McKune · Beem v. McKune
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.