State v. Jarbath’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Natale (2005), State v. O'DONNELL (1989)
3 federal appellate · 181 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 Bibby v. United States · Kelly v. Robinson · State v. Roth · State v. Kelly · State v. Yarbough
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could not endure life in prison without unusual suffering, that is hardship and privation greatly exceeding that which would be accepted and endured by ordinary inmates as the inevitable consequences of punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[G]eneral deterrence unrelated to specific deterrence has relatively insignificant penal value.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n appellate court ... can (a) review sentences to determine if the legislative policies, here the sentencing guidelines, were violated; (b) review the aggravating and mitigating factors found below to determine whether those factors were based upon competent credible evidence in the record; and (c) determine whether, even though the court sentenced in accordance with the guidelines, nevertheless the application of the guidelines to the facts of this case makes the sentence clearly unreasonable so as to shock the judicial conscience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.