State v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 state decisions

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

1. ““ ° ° ° the jury must be convinced and find in its verdict that the defendant charged as an habitual criminal was in fact convicted, sentenced and discharged or pardoned upon compliance with the sentence prior to commission of the crime for which he is being tried before it is required to assess the added penalty fixed by the statute. * ° * ft ft ft State’s Exhibits “D” and “E”, being copies of records required by law to be kept by the Department of Penal Institutions * * *. Such copies, duly certified by the warden, were admissible in evidence. * * * These records, considered in connection with the sameness of the name of the defendant in each of the certified copies, the crime of which he was convicted, the date thereof, and the sentence imposed, with those set forth in the record of the corresponding conviction in the Greene County Circuit Court, clearly warrant an inference that both prison records refer to the defendant Thus, it is that defendant’s imprisonment and discharge in compliance with his sentence in each case is supported by competent evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 46 Ill. App. 3d 246 - People v. Flippen