412 So. 2d 998 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
October 1988
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 397 So. 2d 1287 - State v. Williams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A punishment is considered constitutionally excessive if it makes no measureable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment and is nothing more than the purposeless imposition of pain and suffering and is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime.”
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.