People v. Weddle’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 127 Cal. App. 4th 1066 - People v. Carmony (2005), 76 Cal. App. 4th 489 - People v. Martinez (1999)
47 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 Solem v. Helm · Griffith v. Kentucky · Harmelin v. Michigan · Rummel v. Estelle · McCleskey v. Kemp
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]indings of disproportionality have occurred with exquisite rarity in the case law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because it is the Legislature which determines [the] appropriate penalty for criminal offenses, the defendant must overcome a `considerable burden' in convincing us that his sentence was disproportionate to his level of culpability. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Chacon“the totality of the circumstances surrounding the commission of the offense . . ., including such factors as its motive, the way it was committed, the extent of the defendant's involvement, and the consequences of his acts.”
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.