Niece v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bedwell v. State (1985), Lockhart v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Bozza v. United States · Csaky v. Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes, Inc. · United States v. Denson · State v. Fry · Bond 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t makes no difference whether the sentencing error followed a trial or a guilty plea, the court has the power to correct the illegal sentence in either case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chism v. State · Fields v. State“Although vested with broad discretion in sentencing, a trial judge is required to act within statutorily prescribed limits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devaney v. State“general, if not unanimous, rule that a trial court has the power to vacate an illegal sentence and impose a proper one,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ennis 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.