Winchester v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 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 Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is apparent that the legislative declaration does not accurately characterize the penalty that was imposed here. Despite the majority's effort to square the penalty with the seven factors enumerated in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144 , 83 S.Ct. 554 , 9 L.Ed.2d 644 (1963), in the final analysis its holding that the $250,000 penalty passes constitutional muster is based on its conclusion that the penalty”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winchester v. Stein
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.