People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jefferson County Board of Equalization v. Gerganoff · Holdren v. People · Boulder County Bd. of Com'rs v. Healthsouth · People v. Brockelman · People v. Johnson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature created these sentencing alternatives because incarceration and probation serve different purposes. A prison sentence is primarily punitive. By contrast, probation is intended to be rehabilitative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because probation is an opportunity for an offender to avoid serving a harsher sentence, an offender must apply for it, and receipt of probation is characterized as a privilege, not a right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Whitlock
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.