State v. Gilman’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
January 2026
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Harmelin v. Michigan · Atkins v. Virginia · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mandated sentence for [operating after habitual offender revocation] on the lower end of the zero-to-five-years scale [authorized by the Legislature] is not the rare, extreme, or shocking case, and does not violate the proportionality requirement of article 1, section 9.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez“Discussing what would qualify as disproportionate under the Eighth Amendment, the Supreme Court has used the hypothetical example of 'a legislature making overtime parking a felony punishable by life imprisonment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez
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.