Brass v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2004
10 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 Flores v. State · Kemner v. State · Henderson v. State · O'NEAL 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... While it is considered good practice to enumerate in the court’s charge the probationary conditions which the court may impose if probation is recommended by the jury, the failure to so enumerate the said conditions is not harmful to the accused or restrictive of the court’s authority under the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this case, the Defendant has filed, before trial, his sworn motion in which he prays that in the event he be convicted, he be granted probation. If you find that the Defendant has not ever been convicted of a felony in this or any other State, and if you assess the punishment of the Defendant at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of not more than 10 years and you recommend that probation be granted in this case, then let your verdict show the punishment which you assess, and show that the Defendant has never before been convicted of a felony in this or any other State, and further show that you recommend that his sentence be suspended and that he be placed on probation. Also, you will show the period of probation which you recommend the Defendant shall serve, which shall be any term of years authorized for the offense for which the [Defendant has been convicted, but in no event for more than 10 years. If you choose to recommend that the Defendant be placed on probation, the Court will set the conditions of probation. You may NOT recommend that part of the period of confinement be served by incarceration and part by probation. Should the punishment assessed by you include a fine, a recommendation of probation should state whether or not the fine be paid, or be suspended and probated. Whether you do or do not recommend probation for the Defendant is a matter that rests within the sound discretion of the jury; however, if your do recommend probation, the Court is requ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNamara v. State
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