State v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably State v. Franks (1980), 508 So. 2d 915 - State v. Soco (1987)
25 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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Pearce · State v. Fink
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a judge imposes a more severe sentence upon a defendant after a new trial, the reasons for his doing so must affirmatively appear. Those reasons must be based upon objective information concerning identifiable conduct on the part of the defendant occurring after the time of the original sentencing proceeding. And the factual data upon which the increased sentence is based must be made part of the record, so that the constitutional legitimacy of the increased sentence may be fully reviewed on appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Franks · State v. Allen“under Pearce because the reasons for the disparity between the sentences did not appear in the record. The court remanded the matter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allen“for correction of sentence under the rules prescribed by the Pearce decision as in the case of an illegal sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allen
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.