Lawley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2006
18 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 Castor v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere convenience does not justify a practice that departs from the well recognized assumption that sentencing is an individualized procedure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n those cases in which it is necessary that sentence be pronounced by a judge other than the judge who presided at trial... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If guilt was determined after a trial, the judge who presided at the trial should impose the sentence unless there are compelling reasons in a specific case to provide otherwise." (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Little
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.