170 N.C. App. 166 - State v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2009
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rummel v. Estelle · State v. Ysaguire · State v. Todd · 76 N.C. App. 638 - State v. Aldridge
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly in exceedingly unusual non-capital cases will the sentences imposed be so grossly disproportionate as to violate the Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]othing in the Eighth Amendment prohibits our legislature from enhancing punishment for habitual offenders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“nolo contendere pursuant to a plea agreement, which provided for a specific sentence at the lowest end of the mitigated range of sentences”
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.