Pridgeon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2008
14 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 Shapiro v. Thompson · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Rinaldi v. Yeager · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Thom v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punishment authorized by statute is never cruel or unusual or disproportionate to the nature of the offense unless it is a barbarous one unknown to the law or so wholly disproportionate to the nature of the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community. Hinton v. State, 260 Ark. 42, 49 , 537 S.W.2d 800, 804 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State“Only when a classification is based on a suspect category ... will strict scrutiny, a more demanding standard of review, be applied.”
1 later decision 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.