Acklin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Beed v. State (1980), Swaite v. State (1981)
45 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 Woosley v. United States · United States v. Derrick · Orman v. Bishop · Graham 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I am reminded of Judge J. Smith Henley in federal court, where the federal courts do all the sentencing, and all the guilt or innocence is determined by the jury. ‘If you’ve got a legitimate defense, come over here and argue it. It won’t cost you anything. But if you come over here and waste my time, the jury’s time and the taxpayer’s money, it may very well cost you something.’ I’m not saying that’s what I’m doing. It’s my customary rule to run consecutive sentences imposed by jurors, not because it’s an expense to the county and not because someone elects to do that; it’s just my judgment in the matter that generally that’s what the jury intends to do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers v. State · Teague v. State“I am also mindful that Mr. [Acklin] has had no defense to this case and has put the county to substantial expense to try this without a defense which he is entitled to. It’s my feeling about it that if you want to see the hole card and go to a jury to see what they will do, then you ought to be willing to run the risk.... If you’ve got a legitimate defense, come over here and argue it. It won’t cost you anything. But if you come over here and waste my time, the jury’s time and the taxpayers’ money, it may well cost you something.. . . It’s my customary rule to run consecutive sentences imposed by jurors, not because it’s an expense to the county and not because someone elects to do that; it’s just my judgment in the matter that generally that’s what the jury intends to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mechanical imposition of the same sentence in every case.”
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.