State v. Carabajal’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975), State v. Carlton (1971)
3 federal appellate · 55 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. Rodriguez · James v. Hood · Territory of New Mexico v. Lobato · State v. Gonzales · Holthoff v. Freudenthal
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The statute did not authorize the jury to suggest any particular term of. sentence, but merely authorized the jury to lay before the court the fact that they thought clemency might properly be shown. The final discretion and determination as to what the. sentence should be was left undisturbed with the court. No other conclusion can be reached from the words used in the statute. Nor can any other workable interpretation be arrived at. If the discretion to determine the sentence rests with the court, as it evidently does, who shall say whether the court yielded enough to satisfy the suggestion of the jury in the recommendation to mercy. Endless controversy would arise in each case if the discretion of the trial judge is to be subjected to review by this court. When the district judge, sitting as he does and hearing the evidence, exercises his best judgment and discretion as to a suitable sentence, after having; noted and given'due consideration to the opinion of the trial jury expressed in, their verdict, the defendant has received. all that he is. entitled to' under this. statute.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Henry“The protection furnished by the rule is for the benefit of the witness, not for the parties. And when, as in this case, the appellant was permitted to show by the reporter of the habeas corpus proceedings the former statement by the witness, without foundation having been laid, it was the witness, if anybody, and not the appellant, who suffered injury.”
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.