482 So. 2d 1139 - Bridges v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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 Rummel v. Estelle · 279 So. 2d 599 - Clanton v. State · 304 So. 2d 656 - Ainsworth v. State · 394 So. 2d 1376 - Baker v. State · Mitchell Watson v. Kenlick Coal Company, Inc.
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.
“We have long held that a sentence which does not exceed statutory limits is not cruel or unusual punishment. McAdory v. State, 354 So.2d 263 (Miss.1978); Ainsworth v. State, 304 So.2d 656 (Miss. 1975), cert. denied, 422 U.S. 1012 , 95 S.Ct. 2637 , 45 L.Ed.2d 676 (1975); Clanton v. State, 279 So.2d 599 (Miss.1973). These decisions and numerous others recognize the principle of legislative discretion in determining the proper punishment for criminal offenders and we think this accords with Rummel ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Therefore, we hold that § 99-19-83 is constitutional as written and as applied to the present case.”
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.