State v. McCoy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that courts have an inherent right to suspend a sentence and statute imposing a mandatory sentence, without any right to exercise judicial discretion, is unconstitutional
• holding that courts have an inherent right to suspend a sentence and a statute imposing a mandatory sentence, without any right to exercise judicial discretion, is unconstitutional
• power to suspend sentence inherent in judicial function
• power to suspend sentence inherent in judicial function

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Minich v. Gem State Developers, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1979-02-16· cited 436×
• Jones v. State Board of Medicine
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1976-10-15· cited 191×
• State v. Higgins
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1979-12-06· cited 191×
• State v. Des Marets
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1983-01-26· cited 179×
• Olsen v. J.A. Freeman Co.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1990-05-07· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-03-15· cited 150×
• Alegria v. Payonk
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1980-09-26· cited 135×
• State v. Lindquist
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1979-01-11· cited 97×
• State v. Bishop
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-03-31· cited 75×
• State v. Dameniel Preston Owens
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2015-02-09· cited 71×
• Mead v. Arnell
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1990-03-13· cited 56×
• Mendoza-Lobos v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2009-10-29· cited 54×
• State v. Osterloh
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-12-22· cited 49×
• State v. Saari
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-09-15· cited 46×
• State v. Mabry
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1981-07-02· cited 43×
• State v. Stover
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2005-01-06· cited 43×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1972-11-15· cited 39×
• State v. Currington
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1985-06-26· cited 38×
• State v. Lawrence
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 38×
• Standlee v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1975-08-05· cited 37×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ex Parte United States
  Supreme Court· 1916-12-04· cited 540×
• Leonardson v. Moon
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1969-03-05· cited 60×
• R. E. W. Construction Co. v. District Court of the Third Judicial District
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1965-03-26· cited 52×
• State Ex Rel. Rich v. Idaho Power Co.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1959-10-02· cited 45×
• Montgomery v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1935-01-31· cited 37×
• Kimball v. Sweet
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1898-03-29· cited 30×
• State ex rel. Gehrmann v. Osborne
  New Jersey Court of Chancery· 1911-12-06· cited 29×
• Spencer v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1911-09-15· cited 28×
• In re Peterson
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1911-02-25· cited 25×
• State ex rel. Conner v. Ensign ex rel. County of Gooding
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1924-02-04· cited 20×
• People v. Goodrich
  New York Supreme Court· 1914-09-01· cited 12×