Cipolla v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably State v. Freeman (1978), State v. McDaniel & Owens (1980)
36 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 Corallo v. United States · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · State v. Coutcher · Gladen v. State · State v. Cippola
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sentence of not less than 40 years nor more than 60 years permitted by K. S. A. 21-534 as enhanced by K. S. A. 21-107a, under the circumstances disclosed by the record, is not so disproportionate to the offense and petitioner s past history of crime as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Troy · State v. Freeman“‘It has long been settled that habitual criminal statutes themselves do not inflict cruel and unusual punishment by providing for increased terms of imimprisonment for defendants previously convicted of crime. (McDonald v. Massachusetts, (1901) 180 U. S. 311 , 45 L. Ed. 542 , 21 S. Ct. 389 ; see also Anno 33 A. L. R. 3d 335.)” (p. 824.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Troy““The severity of punishment, if within the statutory limits set by the legislature, is within the discretionary power of the trial court.” (pp. 824-825.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis 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.