State v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2012
13 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 State v. Hovis · 6 Utah 2d 198 - State v. Sibert · People v. Connolly · 14 Utah 2d 124 - State v. Plum · State v. McBane
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Given the volume of cases handled by the courts, sentencing may be based on errors which, if made known to the trial judge, could produce a different result. To avoid errors, sentencing procedures require a somewhat stricter standard than the general presumption of regularity. At the least, there should be on the record an identification of the reports that were before the sentencing judge at the time of pronouncing sentence and an indication that those reports were made with respect to the particular”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lipsky“[w]hile it is preferable that the judge who takes a defendant's plea be the same as the judge who sentences that defendant, it is not essential that they be the same”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DIEUDONNE v. State“the [sentencing] judge may determine the extent to which conclusions in the [PSI] should be accorded weight in the pronouncement of the sentence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kucharski
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.