Bunch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Buchanan v. State (2002), Carter v. State (1999)
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 Harris v. Oklahoma · Kingery v. State · Gambill v. State · Sanchez v. State · Prowell v. State
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.
“[The issue is not whether in our judgment the sentence is unreasonable, but whether it is clearly, plainly, and obviously so.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spiller v. State · Wright v. State“manifestly unreasonable in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[als it was entitled to do, the trial court considered [defendant's] lack of prior erim-inal history but declined to accord it significant weight”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bostick v. State · Laux 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.