Stapler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(2) On trial of the issue whether the prosecution of a child, more than fourteen years of age; shall be transferred to a court other than a juvenile court, two-questions are presented. “First, the court must decide whether the child is a delinquent child. If the state fail to prove by competent evidence that defendant is delinquent, then the case would appear to be at an end. “Second, the court must decide, after thorough investigation or exercise -of its disciplinary measures, whether the child; can be made to lead a correct life and can ■ be properly disciplined under the provisions of Chapter 7, Title 13. If the state fail to prove by competent evidence that the child cannot be made to lead a correct life and cannot be properly disciplined as aforesaid, then the court cannot so find and a decree ordering transfer to a court other than ‘a juvenile court is erroneous.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hall v. State · Rudolph v. State

2. “"§ 364. Transfer from the juvenile court.—If, at any time, after thorough investigation or exercise of its disciplinary measures, the juvenile court or judge thereof shall be convinced that a delinquent child, more than fourteen years of age, brought before it under the terms of this chapter cannot be made to lead a correct life and cannot be properly disciplined under the provisions of this chapter, the juvenile court or judge thereof shall have authority to transfer the care of such delinquent to the jurisdiction of any other court in the county having jurisdiction of the offense with which said child is charged, there to be proceeded against according to law. * * *"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duck v. State · Guenther v. State

3. ““Confessions and admissions of children.' — The voluntary admissions or confessions of any dependent, neglected or delinquent child, as described herein, or of the parent or parents of such child, made to the probation officer, or any other person, in reference to any cause or matter in such court, if otherwise competent, shall be received in such court as legal evidence; and the written or verbal report of facts or conditions, in reference to any child, or in reference to such child’s manner of life, or condition, or environment which show, or tend to show, the social condition or status of such child, made by a probation officer of said court after an investigation in pursuance of any rule or order of court, shall be received in evidence in such court, in such case as prima facie evidence óf such facts or conditions, and may be used by any party in interest, in such case. No disposition of the case of a child dealt with for delinquency under this chapter nor any admission or confession of such child or of such parent, or parents, to the probation officer, or court; nor any report of a probation officer, made or given in pursuance of any rule or order of such courts; nor any statement by any parent, or parents, of such child, in such proceeding, shall be given or heard in any civil, criminal, or other cause or proceeding whatever, or in any other court, be lawful or proper evidence against such child or parent, or parents, for any purpose; but such matters may be received an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 51 Ala. App. 222 - Clarke v. State