340 So. 2d 1382 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably State v. Sepulvado (1979), 369 So. 2d 118 - State v. Cox (1979)
28 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 · Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles · Weems v. United States · 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] sentence shall not be set aside on the ground that it inflicts cruel or unusual punishment unless the statute under which it is imposed is found unconstitutional.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Mandatory penalties are particularly suspect because they frequently have no relation to the magnitude of the offense.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`though not cruel or unusual, are too severe as punishment for certain conduct and thus unconstitutional.'”
3 later decisions 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.