State v. Shipler’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2012
9 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 Ex Parte Barber · Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft · STATE, DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Higgs · Ward v. Richfield City · 25 Utah 2d 230 - Belt v. Turner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a conviction is for a third degree felony the conviction is considered to be for a class A misdemeanor if: [[Image here]] (b)) the imposition of the sentence is stayed and the defendant is placed on probation, whether committed to jail as a condition of probation or not; (ii) the defendant is subsequently discharged without violating his probation; and (ii) the judge upon motion and notice to the prosecuting attorney, and a hearing if requested by either party or the court, finds it is in the interest of justice that the conviction be considered to be for a class A misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“If the court suspends the execution of the sentence and places the defendant on probation, ... the court may enter a judgment of conviction for the next lower degree of offense. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“the issue ... is not whether the initial sentence was appropriate [but] whether defendant's performance on probation justifies a reduction in her record of conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holt
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.