State v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 1972 · most notably State v. McGee (1935), State v. Burnett (1956)
42 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. Meyers · State v. Nasello · State v. Tippett · State v. Burrell · State v. Parr
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has repeatedly held that the fixing of the punishment for crime is a legislative and not a judicial function, and when, as in this case, the punishment is assessed within the limits prescribed by statute, it cannot be adjudged to be excessive. . . . Adherence to such holdings, obviously sound, disposes of the question thus raised, and so the point is ruled against appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McGee
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.