Goetzendanner v. Superintendent’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Townsend v. Burke · United States v. Lewis · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. LeBlanc · Pina v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution
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.
“An 'illegal sentence' is one that is in excess of the punishment prescribed by the relevant statutory provision or in some way contrary to the applicable statute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“premised on a major misunderstanding by the sentencing judge as to the legal bounds of his authority,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.