State v. Cady’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2024
20 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 Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad · United States v. Villano · Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the oral sentence is the only sentence and the written sentence must conform to it”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Puthoff · State v. Semrad“(1) when the words used have more than one meaning; (2) when otherwise unambiguous words are used in an unusual way; (3) the extent of the sentence cannot be ascertained from the language used; or (4) the plain meaning of the words used lead to an irrational or absurd result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thayer · State v. Cook“[A]s against an unwilling defendant, a valid sentence cannot be increased in severity after he has commenced the serving thereof_ (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Munk
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.