Denton v. Maples’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

cited by 25 later decisions

states following

March 2018

most recently cited

25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 455 So. 2d 713 - Cannaday v. State (1984), 691 So. 2d 929 - Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance v. Russell (1997)

25 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 Horton v. State ex rel. Hayden · Roberson v. Quave · Egbert v. St. Louis S. F. R. Co. · Silverman v. Seneca Realty Co. · Edmonds v. Delta Democrat Publishing Co.

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“the only time a trial judge can suspend a sentence is immediately after the defendant is convicted and at the time the trial judge announces and imposes sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Arnett v. State · 708 So. 2d 866 - Mississippi Com'n on Judicial Performance v. Sanders
“upon its own motion, acting upon the advice and consent of the commissioner not earlier than thirty (30) days nor later than one (1) year after the defendant has been delivered into the custody of the [MDOC], to which he has been sentenced, suspend the further execution of the sentence and place the defendant on earned probation....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Johnson v. State · 85 So. 3d 860 - Graham v. State
“except that the court shall not suspend the execution of a sentence of imprisonment after the defendant shall have begun to serve such sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Arnett v. State · 585 So. 2d 757 - Robinson v. State

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.