30 Utah 2d 32 - State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (1974), State v. Moosman (1990)
25 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 Furman v. Georgia · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Trop v. Dulles · McGautha v. California · 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“punishment or penalty which may be imposed upon the person found guilty of a crime, rather than a definition of a particular crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robertson“a category of offenses for which the punishment of death might be imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robertson“[t]he 'classification' theory appears preferable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Robertson
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.