522 So. 2d 762 - Clowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Harmelin v. Michigan (1991), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)
37 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 · Burt v. State · Bolton v. City of Greenville · Presley v. State · 483 So. 2d 1330 - Jenkins 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty; (2) Comparison of the sentence with sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (3) Comparison of sentences imposed in other jurisdictions for commission of *Page 123 the same crime with the sentence imposed in this case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tompkins v. State · White v. State“[t]he fact that the trial judge lacks sentencing discretion does not necessarily mean the prescribed sentence meets federal constitutional proportionality requirements. Notwithstanding [section] 99-19-81, the trial court has authority to review a particular sentence in light of constitutional principles of proportionality as expressed in Solem v. Helm .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“outside the context of capital punishment, successful challenges to the proportionality of a particular sentence will be exceedingly rare.”
4 later decisions 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.