Roy v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 611 · 1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2001
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Whalen v. United States · State v. Jones · Fierro v. MacDougall · State v. Warren
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The imposition of consecutive sentences is nothing more than the imposition, for each crime, of the sentence fixed by legislative act. Such sentencing does not constitute usurpation of a legislative function but rather is literal compliance with that which the legislature has prescribed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olds v. Maass“Oregon courts clearly have the power to impose consecutive sentences for crimes committed at separate times.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olds v. Maass“No statutory authorization is required where ... the acts punished are clearly discrete.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olds v. Maass
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.