Donlun v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Mutschler v. State (1977), Moreau v. State (1978)
73 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 Waters v. State · Galaktionoff v. State · Rell v. State · Schwabacher v. People · Torres 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The American Bar Association has stated that in the vast majority of cases prison sentences are significantly higher than are needed to adequately protect the interests of the public and that, except for cases involving particularly serious offenses, dangerous offenders and professional criminals, maximum prison terms ought not to exceed five years, (emphasis in original)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spearman v. State · Hansen v. State“The fact that the sentence did not exceed the maximum allowed . . . — 10 years — is of no consequence, for if the sentencing court had believed 10 years, rather than 20 years, to be the maximum possible sentence, it might well have imposed a more lenient sentence. We therefore believe the appellant should be resentenced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“criminal statute provides for graded or enhanced ranges of punishments for aggravated instances of the proscribed offense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Post v. State · Malloy 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.