Richards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2010
8 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 Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Schaffer v. United States · Mead 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was established that appellant was convicted of burglary, was committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Health and Welfare for a period of three years by reason of such conviction, was placed in the Fairbanks jail as designated by the commissioner under such judgment and commitment, and left that jail without lawful authority before his sentence had been served. This was proof of the essential elements of the crime of escape from custody or confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alex v. State“The fact that a particular jail facility was not designated by the sentencing court is in accord with statute. AS 33.30.100 provides that “The commissioner [of the Department of Health and Welfare] shall designate the facility where the sentence shall be served.” 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rust 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.