Snider v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.2d 626 · 1966
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1983
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Rudolph v. Alabama · William Ralph v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary · Snider v. Cunningham · Snider v. Smyth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is extreme variation in the degree of culpability of rapists. If one were sentenced to death upon conviction of rape of an adult under circumstances lacking great aggravation, the Supreme Court might well find it an appropriate case to consider the constitutional questions tendered to us. Even an inferior court such as ours might find the question not foreclosed to it if the actual and potential harm to the victim was relatively slight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.