Moten v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably State v. Ashby (1991), State v. Grear (1978)
25 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 Santobello v. New York · Stiller v. State · 130 Ill. App. 2d 852 - People v. McClendon · Mattino 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . where the effect of sustaining the denial of a probation would be to defeat the public policy of the state by placing it within the power of the trial judge to deny probation on a basis outside statutory criteria, and without valid reasons, we are left with no choice but to intervene . . ..” (Emphasis added.) 559 S.W.2d at 773 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ashby · State v. Cummings““Reliance upon this factor would defeat the whole concept of probation. While the other factors listed in Stiller may or may not be present or applicable or significant in any given case, deterence is a factor which is uniformly present. Thus, even if all factors gravitate in defendant’s favor in a given case, probation would be defeated by the fact that to suspend the sentence would destroy the conviction’s deterrent value. Reliance on this factor is no more realistic or reasonable than denying probation on grounds that the defendant committed a crime.” Id. at 773 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ashby · State v. Michael“The entire theory of probation is that it is in the public interest that those who violate society’s rules of conduct should, in proper cases, be given an opportunity to rehabilitate themselves and to be restored to useful and productive citizenship. More and more our society is coming to realize that “warehousing” criminals on an indiscriminate basis is financially, socially and morally unacceptable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ashby
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.