Hart v. Coiner’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 136 · 1973
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Harmelin v. Michigan (1991), Rummel v. Estelle (1980)
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Brady v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles
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.
“wholly disproportionate to the nature of the offenses he committed, . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]here are several objective factors which are useful in determining whether the sentence in this case is constitutionally disproportionate. The test to be used is a cumulative one focusing on an analysis of the combined factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] free man shall not be [fined] for a trivial offence, except in accordance with the degree of the offence; and for a serious offence he shall be [fined] according to its gravity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rummel v. Estelle
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.