Conner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Richardson v. State (1999), Bivins v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Hollars v. State · Clark v. State · Best v. State · Mills v. State · Taylor v. Indiana
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[alll penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ratliff v. Cohn · Bivins v. State“'only when a criminal penalty is not graduated and proportioned to the nature of the offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Hevenor v. State“A person who knowingly or intentionally delivers or finances the delivery of any substance, other than a controlled substance or a drug for which a prescription is required under federal or state law, that: (1) Is expressly or impliedly represented to be a controlled substance; (2) Is distributed under circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance; or (3) By overall dosage unit appearance, including shape, color, size, markings, or lack of markings, taste, consistency, or any other identifying physical characteristic of the substance, would lead a reasonable person to believe the substance is a controlled substance; commits dealing in a substance represented to be a controlled substance, a Class D felony.”
1 later decision 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.