Taylor v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2004
19 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 Solem v. Helm · Rummel v. Estelle · United States v. Rhodes · Norris v. State · Hansford v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bivins v. State · Stanek v. State“of the offense. We must focus initially on the principal felony-the theft conviction that triggers the habitual offender statute-because Mills already has paid the penalty for each of his prior offenses. Mills' prior convictions are, of course, relevant to the sentencing decision. Therefore, the proportionality analysis of a habitual offender penalty has two components. First, a reviewing court should judge the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. State“Tthe jury's right under the Indiana Constitution to determine the law has some limitations; the jury, for instance, has no responsibility to assess penalties under the current criminal code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.