Kasper v. Brittain’s Empirical Analysis
245 F.2d 92 · 1957
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), Walker v. City of Birmingham (1967)
25 federal appellate · 9 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Brown v. Board of Education · Dennis v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punishment is not 'cruel and unusual,' unless it is so greatly disproportionate to the offence committed as to be completely arbitrary and shocking to the sense of justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.