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← 445 P2D 815 - Faulkner v. State

Faulkner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
8
states following
April 2012
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch (1972), State v. Chaney (1970)

32 state decisions

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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 Weems v. United States · Gore v. United States · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · United States v. Benz · Kemmler

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the defendant is convicted of two or more crimes, before judgment on ei ther, the judgment may be that the imprisonment upon one conviction begins at the expiration of the imprisonment of any other of the crimes. If the defendant is imprisoned upon a previous judgment on a conviction for a crime, the judgment may be that the imprisonment commences at the expiration of the term limited by the previous judgment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Lanier v. State · Marrone v. State
  2. “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Penal administration shall be based on the principle of reformation and upon the need for protecting the public.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Nell v. State · Lanier v. State
  3. “not of sufficient gravity to justify imposing what amounts to a life sentence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Houk v. State · 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch

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.