Pate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
3
states following
April 1995
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Turner v. Louisiana · Pate v. State · Pate v. Page · In Re Pate's Petition
Most-quoted passages
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“The refixing or resetting of the time for execution, where for any reason the judgment of death has not been executed, is a merely ministerial act, which, at common law, as we have seen, generally devolved upon the sheriff, but which under our statute devolves upon the court in which the conviction was had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKenzie
How this case has been treated — in progress
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