State v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2021
22 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 · Harmelin v. Michigan · Trop v. Dulles · Thompson v. Oklahoma · Stanford v. Kentucky
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“identified by Justice Kennedy in the Supreme court's latest pronouncement on this issue. Id. ¶¶ 15-16 (referring to Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957 , 111 S.Ct. 2680 , 115 L.Ed.2d 836 (1991)) (modifying Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 , 103 S.Ct. 3001 , 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983)). These principles are as follows: (1) reviewing courts must grant substantial deference to the legislature's broad authority to determine the types and limits of punishment; (2) the Eighth Amendment does not mandate adoption of any one penological theory; (3) marked divergences”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hinger“The motion should be granted where the juvenile court finds that it is contrary to the best interests of the child OR the public to retain jurisdiction over the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SK“due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SK
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.