State v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 319 Ill. App. 3d 855 - People v. Thon (2001), In Re Abrams (1997)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Ex parte Garland · United States v. George Wilson · Burdick v. United States · Doe v. Manson · In Re Lavine
Most-quoted passages
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“Thus, on the basis of long-held traditional views on the effect of a pardon, covering-diverse periods and sources from Bracton and Blackstone to Professor Williston, from seventeenth century English cases to those in contemporary courts of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, from 1915 teachings of the Supreme Court, and the 1975 analysis of the Court of Appeals of the Seventh Circuit, we conclude that the Presidential pardon of 1977 does not eliminate Noonan’s 1968 conviction and does not “create any factual fiction” that Noonan’s conviction had not occurred to justify expunction of his criminal court record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a pardon does not `blot out the existence of guilt,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is no way that the state can retain the record of a former criminal who is `as innocent as if he had never committed the offense.' A pardon without expungement is not a pardon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.