Queen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2009
2 federal appellate · 16 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 United States v. Winsett · Lockett v. State · McGee v. State · Harris v. State · Maddox 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The trial court issued an order on November 4, 1991, after the revocation hearing, finding defendant had violated the conditions of her suspended sentence by engaging in obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. The order continues: “Therefore, defendant’s suspended sentence should be revoked.” [Our emphasis.] The order further stated it was taking the matter under advisement as to sentencing and directed the defendant to report back to court for sentencing on December 9, 1991. 2. The trial court issued an order on December 9, 1991, to direct sentencing in the case. The order stated: The court, having previously found by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant violated the condition of her suspended sentence, hereby finds that the sentence defendant is currently serving (ten years in the Arkansas Department of Correction with five years suspended) shall remain in effect. In addition to the fine, costs, restitution and fees previously assessed against the defendant in the judgment entered on January 9,1990, she shall pay an additional fine of $250. All conditions of defendant’s suspended sentence shall remain in full force and effect, including the condition that she live a law-abiding life (not committing any offense punishable by imprisonment, either felony or misdemeanor), during the period of suspension. [Our emphasis.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeHart v. State“In 1970 Queen pled guilty to burglary and was sentenced to five years’ statutory “probation.” This probationary period was revoked in 1974 and Queen was sentenced to ten years imprisonment with the sentence suspended. This was clearly improper according to Maddox v. State, 247 Ark. 553 , 446 S.W. 2d 210 (1969) and Cantrell v. State, 258 Ark. 833 , 529 S.W. 2d 136 (1975). In those cases we dealt with “court probation” as imposed by the Sebastian County Circuit Court and we held in both that where the plea of guilty was accepted a later revocation could not exceed the probation period. Here, the plea was accepted and the term of probation was five years. Consequently, a later suspended sentence for ten years was improper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Easley v. State
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.