State v. DeWitt’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 1998
most recently cited
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bouie v. City of Columbia · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Thorburn Ross v. State of Oregon · Coles v. State · United States v. Wharton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may correct an illegal sentence at any time. The court may correct a sentence imposed in an illegal manner and it may reduce any sentence within one hundred twenty (120) days after the sentence is imposed, or within one hundred twenty (120) days after receipt by the court of a mandate of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island issued upon affirmance of the judgment____”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeWitt v. Ventetoulo
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.