State v. Karathanos’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably State v. Maldonado (1978), State v. Brandon (1994)
58 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 United States v. White · Skibs A/S Jolund v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Black v. United States · Hemans v. United States · Edwards v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a controlling distinction between inducing a person to do an unlawful act and setting a trap to catch him in the execution of a criminal design of his own conception.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is the general rule that a sentence within the maximum authorized by statute is not cruel and unusual punishment. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Skinner“such exception is matter to be asserted in defense”
1 later decision 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.