Dumas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2001
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Harmelin v. Michigan · Scharffe v. Perkins · Brewster v. Derwinski · Laughlin v. Internal Revenue Service
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directed more toward compassion and mercy than a sentence to which [the appellant] is entitled as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Callahan v. State“for life or not more than 99 years or less than 10 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Callahan 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.