Gardner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 1978
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Johnson v. State · Hudson 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . This Court has no power to modify a sentence unless we can conscientiously say that under all the facts and circumstances the sentence is so excessive as to shock the conscience of the Court. . . .” (Citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison 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.