State v. Kitchen’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2009
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 639 So. 2d 237 - State v. Smith · 432 So. 2d 1064 - State v. Calloway · State v. Roberts · 644 So. 2d 230 - State v. Wise
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the penalty is grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime or if it is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering.”
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.