State v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2018
7 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Harmelin v. Michigan · State v. Ceaser · State v. Hall · State v. August
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.
“[T]he legislature enjoys broad discretion in defining and classifying criminal offenses .... [It] is free to impose disparate punishments for different crimes so long as the offenses are distinguishable on their elements.... [I]f the elements of the offenses are not the same, persons committing the crimes are not similarly situated and, therefore, may be treated differently for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cronkhite
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.