State v. Maestas’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably State v. Gunzelman (1973), State v. Orona (1982)
48 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993)
Relies on Chandler v. Battenfield · State v. Carabajal · State v. Martin · Bailey v. United States · Snodgrass v. Turner Tourist Hotels, Inc.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who shall be convicted of a felony or other crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, if judgment be not suspended or a new trial granted, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary. The court in imposing such sentence shall sentence the person for the term as prescribed by law for the particular crime of which he was convicted. The term of imprisonment of any person so convicted shall not exceed the maximum nor be less than the minimum term fixed by law. The release of such person shall be as provided by law: * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * After careful consideration we are of the opinion that in the absence of a maximum set by the legislature, the maximum limit for second degree murder ‘as prescribed by law’, is life imprisonment. Obviously, this is so. Life imprisonment is a ‘period of time not less than three (3) years’, hence, it follows ‘life imprisonment’ is the maximum penalty imposed for the crime of second degree murder. * * *«”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCutcheon v. Cox
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.