Baze v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Trop v. Dulles · Weems v. United States · LaGrand v. Stewart · State v. Webb
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a method of punishment is cruel and unusual if it shocks the moral sense of all reasonable men as to what is right and proper under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phon v. Com. of Ky.“a substantial risk of wanton and unnecessary infliction of pain, torture or lingering death”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.