State v. Shawn Bellanger’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
August 2025
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harmelin v. Michigan · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Ewing v. California · Johnson v. Louisiana · Apodaca v. Oregon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it [was] neither logically nor reasonably likely that the jurors would have reached a different verdict had the trial court given a specific unanimity instruction”
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.