Barnwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State (1997), 616 So. 2d 298 - Noe v. State (1993)
43 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 · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · Riverbend Farms, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]part from ... a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole' — or a sentence which is manifestly disproportionate to the crime committed (e.g., life sentence for overtime parking), extended proportionality analysis is not required by the Eighth Amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here a sentence is within prescribed statutory limits, it will generally be upheld and not regarded as cruel and unusual,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wade v. State · Anderson v. State“Clowers, by its own statement, is limited to its own distinctive facts and procedural posture.”
3 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.