Isom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2018
19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Woodson v. North Carolina · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Rummel v. Estelle
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is insulated from judicial review unless it is wholly irrational or so grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. [Cits.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ortiz v. State · Williams v. State“Where a criminal statute does not discriminate on racial grounds or against a suspect class, equal protection and due process concerns are satisfied if the statute bears a “reasonable relation to a proper legislative purpose” and is “neither arbitrary nor discriminatory.” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. State“does not assert that the mandatory sentence statute was selectively enforced against him for some discriminatory or improper reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ortiz 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.