Wood v. South Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 149 · 1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2002
10 federal appellate ·
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 Hart v. Coiner · State v. Hill
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hatever may be our subjective view of the matter, we fail to discern here objective factors establishing disproportionality in violation of the eighth amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rummel v. Estelle“so excessive and disproportionate as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Davis
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.