Rammell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2005
2 federal appellate · 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 14 Cal. 3d 629 - In Re Adams · 22 Utah 2d 343 - State v. Shondel · 21 Utah 2d 96 - Brown v. Turner · 19 Utah 2d 284 - Bryant v. Turner · State v. Rice
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proceeding to the main issue in this case; we agree with petitioner's premise that where there are two statutes which proscribe the same conduct but impose different penalties, the violator is entitled to the lesser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Loveless
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.