Roden v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2013
6 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 Exxon Corp. v. Eagerton · State v. Secrest · Janish v. Murtha
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sentencing is a judicial act, while parole is a function of an appointed board administered under the direction of the [Board], It is the parole board’s duty to evaluate the inmate’s conduct and rehabilitative progress in deciding his eligibility for parole consideration. This is a totally different criteria of thought process than- that which confronts a sentencing judge.”
1 later decision 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.