State v. Guthrie’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Carriger (1984), State v. Ethington (1979)
36 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 State v. Espinosa · State v. Taylor · State v. Howland · State v. Guthrie · State v. Burchett
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute under which the appellant was tried allows the judge to impose a sentence of from five years to life with the additional provision that the defendant has no possibility of parole for at least five years. The appellant was sentenced to serve from five to six years in the State Prison. Appellant alleges that the imposition of this sentence violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 2, § 15 of the Arizona Constitution, both of which forbid the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment. In State v. Taylor, 82 Ariz. 289 , 312 P.2d 162 (1957) we upheld the imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of parole, as authorized by the statute, as against the same arguments which are raised in the present case. We note that the sale and use of narcotics has an extremely deleterious effect on individuals and upon society in general. We cannot say that the imposition of a sentence of from five to six years without the possibility of parole for five years is violative of any constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. ‘As long as the punishment is approximately proportionate to the type of crime and not so severe as to shock the moral sense of the community, its extent is necessarily within the discretion of the legislature.’ State v. Taylor, 82 Ariz. 289, 294 , 312 P.2d 162, 166 (1957).” State v. Espinosa, 101 Ariz. 474, 477, 421 P.2d 322, 325 (1966). See also State v. 'Guthrie, 111 Ariz. 471 , 532 P.2d 862 (1975”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stadie““Post conviction relief is not designed to add to the law’s delays by giving an accused three days in court where one is sufficient for doing substantial justice under fundamental law nor to grant an additional and fully repetitious appeal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Galaz v. Carruth
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.