Rainer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
4
states following
April 2020
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Washington v. Glucksberg · Smith v. Doe · Hollowell v. Jove · Doe II III v. Miller J
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.
“In view of our conclusion that the statute is not punitive, it follows that the law is not a 'cruel and unusual punishment' in violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
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.