Farmer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably Davis v. State (1975), Dickens v. State (1973)
52 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 Smith v. State · Asher v. State · Gann v. State · Kinnaird v. State · Layton 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The legislature has the authority to provide which acts shall be crimes in our society and to provide penalties therefor. It is, therefore, within their jurisdiction to provide for the length of sentences for the offenses and to regulate the power of the courts to grant or deny probation as they see fit. We have accordingly found that the granting of probation is a privilege governed exclusively by a statute and one which confers no right upon any defendant. For example: The granting of probation to a defendant, who is found guilty of a crime is wholly a discretionary power of the trial court .... Probation is purely a favor granted by the trial judge and there is no right to probation."”
4 later decisions 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.