State v. Brogdon’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 775 So. 2d 1022 - State v. Casey (2000), 637 So. 2d 1012 - State v. Davis (1994)
2 federal appellate · 232 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Chambers v. Maroney · Lockett v. Ohio · Solem v. Helm · State v. Sepulvado
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime”
79 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Egana · State v. Martinez“[t]his court is required by our state constitution and its own rule in each capital sentence review to conduct a comparative proportionality review to determine whether the sentence is disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner”
3 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.