State v. Chaffin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 68 Ohio App. 2d 211 - State v. Peterseim (1980), State v. Weitbrecht (1999)
6 federal appellate · 195 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 McDougle v. Maxwell · State v. Swiger · 148 Ohio St. 473 - State v. Petro · Kasper v. Brittain · State v. Juliano
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the penalty must be so greatly disproportionate to the offense as to shock the sense of justice of the community.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]unishments which are prohibited by the Eighth Amendment are limited to torture or other barbarous punishments, degrading punishments unknown at common law, and punishments which are so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“for purposes of the Eighth Amendment and Section 9 , Article I of the Ohio Constitution, proportionality review should focus on individual sentences rather than on the cumulative impact of multiple sentences imposed consecutively. Where none of the individual sentences imposed on an offender are grossly disproportionate to their respective offenses, an aggregate prison term resulting from consecutive imposition of those sentences does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.”
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.