Ricks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2017
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Goldstein v. United States · Archer v. State · State v. Meadows · Ussery v. Avery · State Ex Rel. Grandstaff v. Gore
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of a governor to commute a prisoner’s sentence is rooted in the Tennessee Constitution. Article III, Section 6 of the Constitution provides: “He [the governor] shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons, after conviction, except in cases of impeachment. It is a well-established principle of law that the power to “grant reprieves and pardons” embraces the right to commute a sentence. In 59 Am.Jur.2d Pardon and Parole § 23 (1987), it is said: The power to commute a sentence is a part of the pardoning power and may be exercised under a general grant of that power. The general power necessarily contains in it the lesser power of remission or commutation. If the whole offense may be pardoned, a fortiori, a part of the punishment may be remitted or the sentence commuted. Neither the legislative nor the judicial branch of government has the authority to regulate or control the governor’s power to commute a sentence.”
2 later decisions 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.