Latham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 2003
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 202nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Solem v. Helm · Lane v. State · McGruder v. Puckett · King v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We initially make a threshold comparison of the gravity of the offense against the severity of the sentence, and then ask whether the sentence is grossly disproportionate to the offense. Only if we find such gross disproportionality do we then compare this sentence to the sentences imposed for similar crimes in this and other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State
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.