Fointno v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Barany v. State (1995), Smith v. State (1984)
61 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Rideout v. United States · Loyd v. State · 131 Ill. App. 3d 141 - People v. Steffens
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifestly unreasonable in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kubiak v. State · Willis v. State“While the absence of [brutality] does not in any way lessen the severity of the crimes as such, and thus does not constitute a mitigating factor justifying a reduction or suspension of the presumptive sentence, the presence of aggravated brutality distinguishes the defendants who commit such acts and justifies a substantially aggravated term where it is present. We do not by this observation debase the seriousness of [sexual assault crimes] themselves. Nor do we suggest that the absence of collateral brutality prevents the imposition of an enhanced sentence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kubiak v. State · Neale v. State“'Under the above authority, we perceive a two-step appellate procedure in this area. We will review a sentence on appeal only when at first blush the sentence imposed appears to be”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kubiak v. State · Bresson v. State
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.