State v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably State v. Comer (1990), In Re Pima County Juvenile Appeal No. 74802-2 (1990)
43 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 Solem v. Helm · Rummel v. Estelle · Spaziano v. Florida · State v. Sepulvado · State v. Mulalley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has said that successful challenges to the proportionality of particular sentences are `exceedingly rare.' Solem, 463 U.S. at 289-90 , 103 S.Ct. at 3009 . This is such a rare case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sexual conduct among ... teenagers is not uncommon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As to defendant's personal culpability, the record indicates that he was an "immature" young man who associated with a younger peer group because of his emotional insecurities, which included a pending divorce after marriage at a young age. He had no prior felony record and no history of assaulting young children. No evidence was presented that he intended to harm these girls, either physically or emotionally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bartlett
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.