Bradshaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2023
21 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 16913
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Gregg v. Georgia · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade
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.
“not only barbaric punishments, but also sentences that are [grossly] disproportionate to the crime committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conley v. Pate“neither violence nor threat of violence to any person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Conley v. Pate
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.