People v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ewing v. California · Close v. People · People v. Thomas · People v. Gaskins · People v. Veren
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether in combination they are so lacking in gravity or seriousness' so as to suggest that the sentence is grossly disproportionate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Green
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.