State v. Scales’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1993
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kuhlmann v. Wilson · State v. Roth · Hearst v. United States · United States v. Hearst · Riley v. Illinois
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“b. Murder is a crime of the first degree but a person convicted of murder shall be sentenced, except as provided in subsection c. of this section, by the court to a term of 30 years, during which the person shall not be eligible for parole or to a specific term of years which shall be between 30 years and life imprisonment of which the person shall serve 30 years before being eligible for parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither manifestly excessive nor unduly punitive.”
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.