State v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Farrow (1995), Town of Nottingham v. Harvey (1980)
30 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 Furman v. Georgia · Ex parte United States · State Ex Rel. Sonner v. Shearin · People v. Broadie · Huffman v. Commonwealth
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he legislature has the power to enact laws defining crimes and to fix the degree, extent and method for punishment.”
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.