State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Following a plea or verdict of guilt, a court may, subject to exceptions, defer judgment, defer sentence, or suspend sentence. When judgment is deferred, the defendant is placed on probation without entry of a judgment. If the probation is successfully completed, the defendant is discharged and no judgment is entered. If probation fails, the judgment is entered and the court is permitted to impose any authorized sentence. This option allows a defendant to avoid a record of a conviction. When the sentence is deferred, a defendant is placed on probation at or after pronouncement of judgment, but without any sentence imposed. The court enters an adjudication of guilty, but the sentence is deferred to a later time. This delay allows the court to consider sentencing in the future after the court has had an opportunity to view a defendant’s conduct on probation. The court retains the power to impose “any sentence it originally could have imposed.” Finally, when a sentence is suspended, a defendant is placed on probation following the pronouncement of the sentence. The sentence is imposed, but execution of the sentence is suspended. This option allows a defendant to avoid a known sentence of incarceration or other punishment based on successful completion of probation. Any revocation of the suspended sentence results in the execution of the sentence previously pronounced.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Loye

2. “local coalitions of judges, prosecutors, attorneys, substance abuse treatment professionals, probation officers, community-based service organizations, law enforcement officials, and others who use the coercive power of the court to force abstinence from drugs and alter behavior of substance-abusing offenders through the integration of substance abuse treatment, sanctions, and incentives with case processing and the placement of nonviolent drug-involved de fendants in judicially supervised visitation programs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dailey