State v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Now, I want to define life imprisonment for you. If sentenced to life imprisonment, the court shall order that the defendant shall be confined for a minimum of 30 years without the possibility of parole, release on work release, or any form of temporary leave, or employment at a forest or work camp. "At any time after 20 years from the imposition of that minimum sentence, upon the request of the prisoner, the State Board of Parole shall hold a hearing to determine if the prisoner is likely to be rehabilitated within a reasonable period of time. The prisoner shall have the burden of proving the likelihood of rehabilitation within a reasonable period of time. "If upon hearing all the evidence, the board finds unanimously that the prisoner is capable of rehabilitation, the terms of the prisoner's confinement shall be changed to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole or work release. Further requests by the prisoner for a change may be filed at intervals of not less than two years."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montez“The trial court instructed the jury that the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a probability defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society, thus informing the jury that the state had the burden of proof and of the standard of proof required. No more was required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tucker“If upon hearing all the evidence, the board finds unanimously that the prisoner is capable of rehabilitation, the terms of the prisoner's confinement shall be changed to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole or work release. Further requests by the prisoner for a change may be filed at intervals of not less than two years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montez
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.