State v. Caston’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably State v. Egana (1997), State v. Major (1998)
112 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 Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee · 424 So. 2d 1009 - State v. Quebedeaux · 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan · State v. Brogdon
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 113 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”
50 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Egana · State v. Pittman“No law shall subject any person ... to cruel, excessive or unusual punishment.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Egana · State v. Pittman“Although Mr. Calway was only alleged to be a second offender in this multiple bill of information and while he denied several other convictions that he had, when he took the stand on cross examination he had no choice but to admit that he had numerous, numerous other convictions. In fact, the state's evidence in this case was limited to S-1, white rocks, S-2, a crime lab report and the rest of the evidence in this case S-3, 4,5,6,7 and 8 were all certified copies of Mr. Calway's prior convictions. 1,2,3,4,5,6. Six prior convictions. I find that Mr. Calway has a significant criminal history. I find that he is a dangerous encourageable (sic) criminal. I find that although probation is not an option in this case, that if it were that the defendant would pose an undue risk during any period of suspended sentence or probation, that he would commit more crimes. I find that he is in need of correctional treatment in a custodial environment that can best be provided by the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Any lesser sentence in this case would debrocate (sic) from the serious nature of the defendant's crime, that is, pushing drugs. I further find that due to his criminal history that any chance for rehabilitation in this case would be slight. I find that this individual poses an unusual risk to the safety of the public, he has a significant criminal history. Therefore, it's sentence of the court that you serve 60 years in the custody of Louisiana Department of Corrections at hard labor ”
2 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.