Ex parte Pue’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A trial or appellate court which otherwise has jurisdiction over a criminal conviction may always notice and correct an illegal sentence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Niles v. State · Rodriguez v. State

2. “if it is shown on the trial of a felony offense other than a state jail felony ... that the defendant has previously been finally convicted of two felony offenses, and the second previous felony conviction is for an offense that occurred subsequent to the first previous conviction having become final[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rodriguez v. State

3. “principle that an 'illegal sentence' may be raised 'at any time,' regardless of whether there was a contemporaneous objection lodged at trial, does not apply with respect to improper enhancement claims-or at least not all (and maybe not even most ) improper-enhancement claims.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rodriguez v. State