Anderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2011
5 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 Roberts v. State · Williams v. State · Sam 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a sentence is within the limits imposed by statute, this Court will not modify the terms of that sentence unless we can conscientiously say that under all the facts and circumstances it is so excessive as to shock the conscience of the Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koonce v. State“defendant admit[ted] he had possession of the drugs and that he had possession for his own use and distribution to his friends”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“agents merely provided an opportunity for the defendant to commit the crime”
1 later decision 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.