State v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2018
3 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Santobello v. New York
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.
“Performance of this duty by a trial judge involves a solemn exercise of discretion on his part, the outer limits of which are set by applicable statutory perimeters while the inner limits are set only by the sound judgment and good conscience of the judge himself. In short, a trial judge is vested with broad discretion within statutorily prescribed limits when called upon to fix punishment in criminal cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vaughn“trial judge was under no compulsion to accept”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.