Singer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Mitchem v. State (1997), Prowell v. State (1997)
38 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 California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Fugate v. State · Widener v. State · Tumulty v. State · Fointno 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Albusing a 'position of trust' is, by itself, a valid aggravator which supports the maximum enhancement of a sentence for child molesting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jaco v. State · Bear v. State“'We also recognize that pleading guiliy may be considered as a valid mitigating circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cherry v. State · Kinkead v. State“"As long as the record indicates that the trial court engaged in the evaluative processes and the sentence was not manifestly unreasonable, the purposes of the sentencing statement have been satisfied. When reviewing a sentencing statement this court is not limited to the written sentencing order but may examine the record as a whole to determine that the trial court made a sufficient statement of its reasons for selecting the sentence imposed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaw v. State
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.