State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1984
4 federal appellate · 13 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 State v. Brinkley · State Ex Rel. Stewart v. Blair
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The record plainly states that ‘imposition of sentence . . . hereby is suspended.’ A suspended sentence is ‘a suspension of active proceedings in a criminal prosecution. It is not a final judgment . . . ’ 24 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1571, p. 47. The phrase ‘suspended sentence’ is not a ‘sentence’ at all but is used to describe the act of withholding the ‘sentence’ in a case. A ‘suspended sentence’ is not a ‘sentence’ within the meaning of that word as used in amend- (Empha-ed Section 556.280 sis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lynch · State v. Crate
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.