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Norris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

82
cited by 82 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Hall v. State (1980), Timbs v. Indiana (2019)

80 state decisions

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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 Gregg v. Georgia · Schmerber v. State of California · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Coker v. Georgia · Johnson 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"excessive" in relation to the crime committed ... a punishment is "excessive" and unconstitutional if it (1) makes no measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment and hence is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering; or (2) is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cunningham v. State · Hall v. State
  2. “[T]his Court has recognized that its purpose is to more severely penalize those persons whom prior sanction have failed to deter from committing felonies. Bernard v. State, (1967) 248 Ind. 688, 694 , 230 N.E.2d 536, 540 . ‘The punishment is harsh because the offender is a habitual criminal.’ Id.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ferguson v. State
  3. “to examine the defendant and to testify at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Palmer 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.