State v. Amicone’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Sanwick (1986), State v. Thomas (1998)
35 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 · Robinson v. State of California · Enmund v. Florida · Weems v. United States · Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not one of those rare cases where the harshness of the sentence is [so] disproportionate to the nature of the crime”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bishop“a criminal sentence must be proportionate to the crime for which the defendant has been convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bishop“in determining the types and limits of punishments for crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bishop
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.