State v. Acton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. T'le court shall sentence a person who has pleaded guilty to or has been found guilty of the felony of rape, forcible rape, sodomy, forcible sodomy or an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid to an extended term of imprisonment if it finds the defendant is a “persistent sexual offender”. 2. A "persistent sexual offender" is one who has been previously convicted of the felony of rape, forcible rape, sodomy, forcible sodomy or an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid. 3. The term of imprisonment for one found to be a “persistent sexual offender” shall be not less than thirty years, which term shall be served without probation or parole.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Williams · State v. LaPlant

2. ““Significantly, the legislative history of recent DWI statutes indicates that at all relevant times a conviction for a third or subsequent offense was punishable as a felony. See § 564.440, repealed 1979; § 577.010, amended 1982; § 577.023, RSMo.1983.” Acton, 665 S.W.2d at 620 .”

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

3. “same consequences would have attached to his earliest plea upon subsequent convictions as did attach under the new statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schaefer v. Koster