McCullar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2009
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Gordon v. State · McCullar 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When sentence is imposed, it is within the discretion of the court whether to cumulate sentences or not. In the instant case, the trial court at most indicated when assessing punishment and granting probation that if the sentences were later to be imposed, they would be concurrent. The trial court’s statement that the ‘punishments' run concurrently, made after [the defendant] pled guilty, was superfluous since the imposition of sentence is suspended when probation is granted.” (citations omitted) (emphasis in original removed)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State · Duran v. State“... Sentence is not imposed until probation is revoked in which case “the court may proceed to dispose of the case as if there had been no probation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. State · Duran v. State“Upon your pleas of guilty, I will find you guilty and assess your punishment at ten years in the penitentiary in each case to run concurrently. I will place you on probation for ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duran 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.