Austin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Juneby v. State (1982), Brezenoff v. State (1983)
166 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 McClain 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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally a first offender should receive a more favorable sentence than the presumptive sentence for a second offender. It is clear this rule should be violated only in an exceptional case.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The most important factor which supports the sentence which was imposed [three years] is the extensive juvenile record of the defendant. Austin was only eighteen at the time of this incident and had not been convicted of a felony as an adult, but he had a long juvenile record which started in 1968 when he was seven years old. The presentence report outlines constant and numerous offenses and probation violations. Also, the report, in its evaluation of Austin, was concerned with the “almost continuous” nature in which offenses were committed. Many of these charges would have been felonies if the defendant had been an adult at the time of the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. State · Tate v. State“Austin’s record is so extensive and involved so many offenses that it is difficult to list them all. According to the presentence report, his record includes several burglaries and theft offenses. Significantly, Austin’s record includes five different incidents of joyriding. Austin has been placed in various juvenile institutions and programs as a result of his juvenile offenses. Upon release, his pattern of behavior has been to commit additional offenses. The record also shows Austin was convicted of a charge of criminal trespass in the second degree while he was released pending sentencing on the current charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. State · Tate 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.