State v. Helm’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Solem v. Helm (1983), State v. Dupree (1985)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 State v. Williams · State v. Bad Heart Bull · State v. Austin · 16 Wash. App. 119 - State v. Gibson · State v. O'CONNOR
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sentence within the statutory limits is not reviewable on appeal, even if it is regarded as excessive,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.