Spencer v. Kees’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2008
4 federal appellate · 16 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 Ex Parte: in the Matter of William Wells on a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus · Woodward v. Murdock · Alvarez v. State · Kennedy's Case · Ex parte Marks
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No other regulations or restrictions have been prescribed by law, and no other method has been provided for determining when the conditions of a pardon have been broken. “The appellant insists that the provision that the governor may issue his warrant to carry such pardon into effect refers only to the manner of release, and was not intended to provide a method of revocation. There would be much force in this contention if other provisions had been made for determining when conditional pardons have been violated, but there are none. We are of the opinion, therefore, that the provision above stated reposes power in the governor, not only to effect the release, but to make conditional pardons effective. There can be no doubt that the governor was authorized to grant the pardon upon the conditions named, or any others which were capable of being performed and which were not illegal or immoral, and when the appellant accepted the conditional pardon as given he was bound by all its provisions: If the pardon had been unconditional, the release under it would have been final and the governor and the courts would have been without power to again enforce imprisonment under the original sentence. But this was a conditional pardon, such as the governor had power to impose. He granted it as a matter of grace and not of duty. . . . We are, therefore, of the opinion that the governor had power to enforce the performance of the conditions, and when he became satisfied that the conditions o”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . whether the governor was authorized to issue his warrant declaring the conditional pardon void and ordering the appellant to be again taken into custody without giving the appellant an opportunity to he heard.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.