State v. Garnetto’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably City of Pawtucket v. Sundlun (1995), Kennedy v. Cumberland Engineering Co., Inc. (1984)
31 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 Commonwealth v. Lockwood · G. & D. Taylor & Co. v. R. G. & J. T. Place · Prata Undertaking Co. v. State Board of Embalming & Funeral Directing · Gorham v. Robinson · Indictment, State v. Abner Peckham
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the passage of a mandatory act directing and compelling a court to quash a sentence previously imposed would amount in effect to a reversal of the court’s pronounced judgment. Such an act would be an indirect exercise of judicial power by the general assembly over the judgment and records of the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · Hazard v. Howard““Termination of imprisonment on deferred sentence on failure of grand jury to indict. — Whenever any person shall have been sentenced to imprisonment for violation of a deferred sentence by reason of the alleged commission of a felony, and the grand jury shall have failed to return any indictment on the charge which was specifically alleged to have constituted the violation of said deferred sentence, the sentence to imprisonment for the alleged violation of the deferred sentence shall, on motion made to the court on behalf of the person so sentenced, be quashed and imprisonment thereunder shall be terminated forthwith and the deferred sentence shall have same force and effect as if no sentence to imprisonment had been imposed thereunder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hazard v. Howard““will make every reasonable intendment in favor of the constitutionality of a legislative act, and so far as any presumption exists it is in favor of so holding.” State v. Garnetto, 75 R.I. 86, 94 , 63 A.2d 777, 781 (1949).”
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.