Campbell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Traditionally, it is the task of the legislature, not the courts, to define crimes and set the range of sentences. (Cits.) The legislature’s choice of sentence 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.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rooney v. State

2. ““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.)” [Cit.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rooney v. State

3. “was introduced to make truth in sentencing a reality, by ensuring that upon the conviction for a serious violent felony, the offender will serve the full sentence ordered by the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hudson