State v. Fuhrmann’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2017
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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Darr v. Burford · Williams v. Illinois · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · State v. Hall
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.
““A state has wide latitude in fixing punishment for crimes. * * * [citing authority], Our legislature has the power and the responsibility to define crimes and prescribe punishment. * * * [citing authority]. Life imprisonment for first-degree murder is not so disproportionate to the seriousness of the offense as to shock the conscience or sense of justice. * * * [citing authority].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fitz
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.