State v. Sepulvado’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1,565 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,569 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Dorthey (1993), 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno (1980)
1,565 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 · 359 So. 2d 137 - State v. Sepulvado
Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 419 So. 2d 475 - State v. Lanclos · Strickland v. Washington · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith
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 1,569 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall state for the record the considerations taken into account and the factual basis therefor in imposing sentence.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage“cruel, excessive, or unusual punishment.”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] sentence may violate a defendant's constitutional right against excessive punishment even if it is within the statutory limit,”
35 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.