State v. Gidley’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1984
2 district · 4 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the punishment was excessive, cruel or unusual, and not proportioned to the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clevenger
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.